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in picturesqueneBS for its barrenness. It is composed of a long 

 ridge of 250 yards in length, running in an east-and-west direction. 

 From this ridge a long spur runs ofp to the northward. The islet 

 contains about three acres. Its lower levels are just above tide. 

 This lower area is the basking place for hundreds of sea-lions. The 

 central high area is a bird home. 



Wishaloolth is east-southeast of Jagged islet, about half way 

 between it and the shore. It is about 21 acres in area. It is 200 

 feet high and 300 yards long. It is further characterized by its 

 having its strata of metamorphic conglomerate rock dipped ex- 

 actly opposite to the dip of the rocks of its sister islands, they dip- 

 ping southwestward. Its sides are sharply sloping, but are 

 covered with shallow earth and guano and the whole covered with 

 grass and low flowering plants and a few scattering shrubs. Near 

 this islet and between this islet and the shore are several smaller 

 islets, composed of the conglomerate rock, but with strata dipping 

 northwestward. 



The Cape Johnson group comprises about fifteen rocky points 

 and peaks extending from the shore line westward to a distance of 

 one-half to three-fourths mile, in longitude 124° 42', latitude 47° 

 58'. There are but few birds on these islands except on the most 

 westerly ones. 



Doh-od-a-a-luh is about one mile off shore, in longitude 124° 

 41' west, latitude 47° 57' north. It is a little less than an acre in 

 area. It is quite steeply walled. It runs to a high point, but has 

 several outlying spurs, which, together with the less perpendicular 

 slopes, are covered with wire grass. 



Cake island, or Chah-chah-lakh-hoos-set, to use the Indian 

 name, is off shore about two and one-half miles from the mainland 

 to the eastward and some three and one-half miles north of the In- 

 dian village of LaPush, in longitude 124° 41' 30", latitude 47° 55' 

 50" north. It comprises an area of about a dozen acres. It is al- 

 most elliptical in shape, with practically perpendicular walls of a 

 height of 120 feet. It has an oval top densely covered with brush, 

 under which there is a thick layer of turf and guano. It is un- 

 scalable at the present time, hence a bird paradise. 



The James island grovp comprises several islands, principal of 

 which is James island. Four of the so-called islands are only 

 peninsulas at low tide, being then connected with the mainland. 

 The off-shore islands here are small. James island and three 

 other islands of the group are forested, the former densely forested. 

 This island is easily accessible, though high and for the most part 



