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but the crater, save at rare intervals, hidden gravel bottom. This anchorage lay to the 



by masses of black and whitish smoke. What northward and eastward, and was supposed to 



Hague and Dall supposed to be a new island be the best available ; but subsequent surveys 



was then seen to be a new formation, connected proved that another roadstead to the southward 



Go 



B0COSL0FF ISLAND and HAGUE VOLCANO 



BERING SEA 

 1884 



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with the old island by a low sand-spit. Within 

 its curve a narrow bay, well protected from 

 northerly winds, was sighted ; and, running in 

 through thick volumes of sulphurous smoke, 

 the schooner was anchored, amid bubbling 

 water, in thirteen fathoms, with a sand and 



and westward was better, both in shelter and 

 holding ground. 



Three days were occupied in surveying the 

 volcano ; a hasty reconnoissance, made im- 

 mediately after arrival, having satisfied Stone}* 

 that with the exception " of the occasional 



