GEOLOGY ABOUT CHICHAGOF COVE, 

 STEPOVAK BAY 



WITH NOTES ON POPOF AND UNGA ISLANDS 



BY CHARLES PALACHE 



AT Sand Point, in the Shumagin Islands, I left the 

 steamer with a small hunting party. After spending a 

 day on Popof Island, in the vicinity of Sand Point, the 

 party was landed on the mainland of the Alaska Penin- 

 sula at a small cove on the shore of Stepovak Bay, known 

 locally as Chichagof Cove. Here we remained for about 

 ten days, and I had opportunity to study the geology of a 

 limited area with some detail. In the following pages it 

 is my purpose to record the observations I was able to 

 make in the field and the results of the study of the rock 

 specimens collected. 



Unfavorable weather and limited facility for moving 

 camp made it necessary to confine the study to a region 

 within a short day's march from camp, and it was found 

 impossible to traverse the peninsula very narrow at this 

 point as I had hoped to do. Furthermore, I was without 

 surveying instruments except for a small pocket compass, 

 so that the map given herewith (fig. 16) is merely a sketch, 



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