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Dyea, scarcely above tide water, were quite bare, but a mile or 

 two above town and on the mountain sides snow was in more 

 or less abundance and constantly increasing in amount as one 

 went back from the coast. The nights were not very cold, 

 about such, perhaps, as might occur in New York City dur- 

 ing February. Dyea Creek at the mouth of which the town 

 of that name was located (it is scarcely an inhabited town any 

 longer, the travel all going by way of Skagway) is some 16 

 miles long. About half way up is the place called Canon 

 City where the gulch narrows for a mile or two often to only 

 a few rods in width. Here the rocks, where exposed, were 

 often covered with fine growths of mosses and lichens, but 

 there was too much snow and frost to do any satisfactory col- 

 lecting. About 4 miles farther up the gulch was Sheep 

 Camp, the last place where wood for fuel could be obtained 

 till after crossing the Chilcoot Pass. We camped here from 

 the 28th of March to the 7th of April, and although the 

 ground was everywhere covered with 2 or 3 feet or more of 

 snow, a number of specimens were obtained from the trunks 

 of trees and exposed rocks. Chilcoot Pass is 3,500 feet 

 high and the mountain summits near, 2,000 or 3,000 feet 

 higher. Just beyond the Pass, Crater Lake lies in a small 

 depression at the foot of a steep hill and ten miles away is 

 Lake Lindeman, at an elevation of 2,170 feet. This last lake 

 is the nearest point to the coast where boats can be built and 

 run into the Yukon and we camped here from the 7th of 

 April to the first of June. Quite a number of specimens were 

 obtained during this time although the ground was well 

 covered with snow up to the middle of May. By the 25th of 

 the month the lower hills and mountain sides were mostly 

 bare and the ice in the upper half of the lake had largely 

 melted. Frogs were first heard croaking in a marsh May 

 1 6th and on the 26th a single small buttercup was found in 

 bloom close to the lake shore, while sedges were appearing 

 above ground with green tips an inch or so long. Leaving 

 Lindeman the first day of June we sailed down to the foot of 

 the lake (5 or 6 miles only) and camped for 5 days. Vegeta- 



