NEW BOGOSLOF IN 189! 



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in a precipitous wall from the sea. This wall continued 

 for some distance along the west side, forming a line of 

 high cliffs with a narrow beach below (fig. 24) ; on the 



FIG. 23. SKETCH MAP BY MERRIAM SHOWING SPITS IN 1891. 



east the masses of rock broke down irregularly without any 

 beach; on the south the slope was more gradual and the 

 island flattened down into a broad beach which stretched 



FIG. 24. NORTHWEST CORNER OF NEW BOGOSLOF, AUGUST II, 1891. 



out toward Old Bogoslof with which it was connected the 

 previous year. On the east side, particularly a little south 

 of the principal steam vent, the light rocks were broken 



