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side almost to their northern limit. Hither creek, Broad creek, Narrow 

 creek, and Further creek, now opening into Maddaket harbor, repre- 

 sent valleys which were not quite drowned by the depression of the 

 land at the beginning of the present cycle. It is a question how far 

 these valleys extended to the southwest at the beginning of the present 



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Figure 4.— Smith Point, September, 1903. Scale, 1 : 9,5,000. 



cycle. The writer hopes to make a study of this question at some future 

 time, based on the records given on the old maps and from the general 

 study of the rate of erosion of the island. 



In September, 1903, the writer made a planetable survey from the 

 Maddaket Life Saving station to the end of the point. This map is here 

 reproduced (figure 4). It is based on a traverse line with intersections 



