ALASKA GEOLOGY 



magin Islands. It indents the coast deeply, its waters being 

 at one point within five miles of a branch of Port Moller 

 on the northern side of the peninsula (see fig. 16). It 

 would appear to have been little explored, the lack of 

 coal-bearing strata on its shores and of large salmon 

 streams emptying into it sufficiently accounting for the 



absence of refer- 

 ence to it in de- 

 scriptions of this 

 part of Alaska. 

 Chichagof Cove, 

 the point where 

 our camp was lo- 

 cated, is one of the 

 smaller indenta- 

 tions of its shore, 

 lying between two 

 bold headlands 

 which are tied to- 

 gether by a fine 

 curving sand spit 

 about a mile in 

 length, breached 

 at the centre and 

 at the easternmost 

 extremity, where 

 small streams fall 

 into the cove. It 

 is marked on the 



FIG. l6. MAP SHOWING POSITION OF STEPOVAK 



BAY AND CHICHAGOF COVE. 



Scale, i inch = 30 miles. 



accompanying map 

 as the next to the last cove on the northern shore of 

 Stepovak Bay, but the detail of the map is slight and 

 this is not known with certainty to be the correct loca- 

 tion. We were led to it by an Indian who told us of 

 its name and that it was a good hunting ground, and as 



