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referred, as a useful written description of the many irreg- 

 ularities of the inshore bottom is quite impossible. In 



FIG. 9. CAPE NULLATAKTOK 

 Cape White Handkerchief just around corner. 



general, it may, however, be said that the whole coast is 

 fringed with a shelf covered with relatively shallow water, 

 the depth averaging well under one hundred fathoms. 



FIG. 10. REGION OF RAMAH 



1. RamahBay; 2. The Look-out; 3. Mountain above Mission Strait, 3500 ft.; 

 4. Reddick's Bight. 



The beltlike archipelago of islands along the northeast 

 coast simply represents the emerged portions of the shelf. 

 Beyond the islands the depth may increase to more than 

 one hundred fathoms, but, farther out to sea, the bottom 



