104 W. H. Dall—Notes on Alaska and 
Art. X.—Extract from a Report to C. P. Parrerson, Supt. 
Coast and Geodetic Survey; by W. H. Dat, Assistant in 
charge of schooner “Yukon,” employed on the coast of 
Alaska. 
On the 11th of August, after a stormy and tedious passage, 
we arrived at Plover Bay, in Eastern Siberia, near Bering 
trait. The longitude of this place has been independently 
determined from San Francisco and St. Petersburg, so that it 
afforded a convenient place for rating our chronometers before 
beginning work on our coast in the Arctic. We obtained good 
observations for time and a full series of magnetics 
g 4 em. 
However, much to their disgust, they were finally convinced 
netics. 
The land hereabouts is high for the most part, and contains 
beds of good coal, belonging to the true Carboniferous period, 
with limestones containing many fossil corals and other Paleo- 
zoic remains. The revenue cutter “Corwin” coaled sever 
