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dyke weathering reddish to the east and were probably once covered by a more recent basalt which forms the mass of the adjacent hills and is erupted into the sandstones in some places enclosing blackened masses of sandstone.  The sandstones show carbonized bits of lignite and impressions of reeds and stems much like those at Cape Douglas.
Leave the cove for Cold Bay about 11.30 and ran before an increasing NE gale until 6 P.M when we enter the bay which has reefs extending nearly half way across the entrance from the northern headland.  Anchor in a cove well