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as at Oonalashka, and in the bay and island of St. 

 Lawrence j with this are Alpine willows, Cornus 

 suecicay Lhmea bo7^ealis, arctic species ofRubiiSy c^c 

 Empetrum 7iigrumy and Ledum 'palustrCy are every 

 where met with on moor-land, and under the 

 Sphagnum ; but the Ledum does not form there the 

 high bush which adorns the moor-lands in northern 

 Germany. 



The vegetation in the interior of Kotzebue'^s 

 Sound is considerably higher than in the interior 

 of St. Lawrence Bay. The willows are higher, 

 the grass kinds richer, all vegetation more juicy 

 and stronger. Most of the species of plants found 

 by us on the American coast, and wanting in 

 St. Lawrence Bay, indicate a less wintry climate. 

 We found on the island mentioned above, Alnus 

 ijicanay as a little shrub, and Spircea chamcedri- 

 foliay plants which we had noticed at Kamtschatka, 

 and not on the American island of Oonalashka, 

 and which a more rigorous clime seems to have 

 kept from St. Lawrence Bay. The Flora of thi& 

 island is adorned by Orobanche and a Pinguicula» 

 The Cineraria palustris grows particularly luxu- 

 riant on the well-watered declivities, which are 

 formed at the foot of the ice-walls. Betula nana 

 is met with already on the outer coast. The level 

 ground of this coast is not covered with snow 

 during the sunnner. 



Not far from the back of Kolzebue*s Sound, 

 about a degree and a half more south. Cook found 



