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referred, as a useful written description of the many irreg- 
ularities of the inshore bottom is quite impossible. In 
Fic. 9. Carpe NULLATAKTOK 
Cape White Handkerchief just around corner. 
general, it may, however, be said that the whole coast is 
fringed with a shelf covered with relatively shallow water, 
the depth averaging well under one hundred fathoms. 
Fic. 10. REGION oF RAaMAH 
1. Ramah Bay; 2. The Look-out; 3. Mountain above Mission Strait, 3500 ft.; 
4. Reddick’s Bight. 
The beltlike archipelago of islands along the northeast 
coast simply represents the emerged portions of the shelf. 
Beyond the islands the depth may increase to more than 
one hundred fathoms, but, farther out to sea, the bottom 
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