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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 Cajion 
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 
16th 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- 
