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points of land from another cove, which in this report will 

 be referred to as West Cove, it having no local name so 

 far as recorded by the charts. 



Stepovak Bay lies north of the group known as the 

 Shumagin Islands and southeast of Port Moller, a large 

 bay on the north shore of the peninsula, connected with 

 Bering Sea. A portage from the head of West Cove can 

 be made to the shore of Port Moller, with a length of 

 about four miles. 



At the head of Chichagof Cove a gravel beach and 

 meadow nearly cut off from the sea a large tidal lagoon, 

 beyond which a stretch of meadow extends to the foot of 

 the hills, one of which nearly north of the lagoon has 

 been named by Dr. Palache Chichagof Peak. It rises to a 

 height of some 3000 feet. The hills rise abruptly from the 

 meadow. A more detailed description and sketch map 

 are supplied by Dr. Palache in his notes on the geology 

 and petrography of the locality, elsewhere in this volume. 



The rocks in this vicinity so far as observed belong to 

 the Eocene, their age being determined by the fossils 

 herein discussed. They comprise breccias, sandstones 

 and shales, more or less fossiliferous, though the fossils 

 exist chiefly in the form of casts and are often distorted by 

 shearing movements of the matrix, due to the volcanic 

 disturbances to which the region is known to have been 

 subjected. 



The Mesozoic beds which presumably underlie these 

 Eocene sediments crop out on the shores of Port Moller 

 immediately to the northwest, and there, in 1874, the 

 writer collected a number of fossils which were described 

 by Dr. C. A. White in I884. 1 These comprise species 

 of Belemnites, Cyprina and Aucella. 



On the peninsula which separates the head of Port 

 Moller from Herendeen Bay immediately to the westward, 



l. U. S. Geol. Survey, NO. 4, pp. 10-15. 



