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dicular cliff, which form it has maintained to the present 

 day. Its summit tapered to a sharp point, as shown in 



two of Ball's 

 sketches (figs. 

 2 and 3), and 

 the crest of the 

 entire ridge 

 was broken 

 intopinnacles. 

 In 1884, as 



shown by photographs taken by Lieutenant Doty of the 

 'Corwin' (figs. 4 and 17), the top of the northwest peak 

 was less sharply pointed, the middle peak was still de- 

 cidedly the higher, the interval between the two had so 

 weathered as to present three notches and two prominent 

 knobs leading up like great steps to the middle, and the 

 series of pinnacles shown by Ball had fallen. 



FIG. 5. MARGINAL OUTLINE OF OLD BOGOSLOF IN 1887. 

 REVERSED FROM ROUGH SKETCH BY W. C. GREENFIELD. 



FIG. 6. OLD BOGOSLOF FROM THE WEST SPIT IN 1891. THE NORTHWEST 

 PEAK, OWING TO ITS NEARNESS, APPEARS HIGHER THAN THE MORE DISTANT 

 MIDDLE PEAK. 



In 1887, according to a rough sketch by William C. 

 Greenfield (fig. 5) the middle peak had crumbled until it 



