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everywhere the so-called silver was either talc or mica, 

 and naming Silver Bay ironically in memory thereof. 

 Fourteen years afterwards Liitke surveyed the west 

 coast, continuing during the next three summers ; and 

 in 1832 Pachtussoff arrived to undergo in the course of 

 his really admirable work the hardships and privations 

 of which he died. 



