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over  areas  of  considerable  extent.  On  the  north  side  the  bluff  descends 
abruptly  to  the  rocky  beach  except  at  one  or  two  places  where  the 
slope  is  somewhat  gradual.  On  the  west,  with  an  equally  abrupt 
slope,  the  bluff  descends  to  a  flat  gravel  plain  or   foreland  which 
w 
Fig. 
-Outline  map  of  Gambell  and  vicinity,  at  northwest  end  of 
St.  Lawrence  Island. 
stretches  for  three-quarters  of  a  mile  westward  from  its  base  (pi.  4, 
fig.  2,  and  text  fig.  2).  A  large  part  of  the  gravel  plain  is  occupied 
by  a  lake  about  half  a  mile  wide  and  2  miles  long,  running  parallel 
with  the  foot  of  the  plateau  and  with  its  western  shore  separated 
from  the  sea  by  a  long  narrow  bar  of  gravel.    At  the  northwestern 
