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reef or rock with only nine feet of water under her bow. 

 The small boat had crossed or gone to one side of the rock 

 before beginning to sound. 1 We backed off without dam- 

 age to the ship and anchored in the bay on the east side 

 of the island, when a number of us went ashore in a small 

 boat, visiting and photographing first the new, and later 

 the old volcano. 



The bar or isthmus connecting the two islands (found 

 by the 'Corwin' in 1884 and 1885, by Greenfield in 1887, 

 and by the 'Albatross' in 1890) had disappeared, leaving 

 only a short spit attached to the southern end of the new 

 volcano. From Old Bogoslof an entirely new and very 



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FIG. 22. NEW BOGOSLOF FROM THE LONG WEST SPIT OF 

 OLD BOGOSLOF, AUGUST II, 1891. 



long spit had formed on the west side and extended 

 westerly for about a mile, leaving an open channel about 

 a quarter of a mile wide between the two islands (as 

 shown in fig. 22 and also in my chart, fig. 23). 



The shape of the island did not in any way suggest a 

 volcano, there being no cone and no true crater. The 

 highest point was on the north, where the mountain rose 



1 This may have been the remains of a small rock shown on Sarychef's chart 

 in 1826, and mentioned by Ball in 1873, as " half a mile north and east of the 

 island [Old Bogoslof], which rises only a few feet above the water." Dall in 

 Kept. Supt. U. S. Coast Survey for 1873, pp. 115-116, 1875. 



