72 
ALASKA GEOLOGY 
magin Islands. It indents the coast deeply, its waters being 
at one point within five miles of a branch of Port Moller 
on the northern side of the peninsula (see fig. 16). It 
would appear to have been little explored, the lack of 
coal-bearing strata on its shores and of large salmon 
streams emptying into it sufficiently accounting for the 
absence of refer¬ 
ence to it in de¬ 
scriptions of this 
part of Alaska. 
Chichagof Cove, 
the point where 
our camp was lo¬ 
cated, is one of the 
smaller indenta¬ 
tions of its shore, 
lying between two 
bold headlands 
which are tied to¬ 
gether by a fine 
curving sand spit 
about a mile in 
length, breached 
at the centre and 
at the easternmost 
extremity, where 
small streams fall 
into the cove. It 
is marked on the 
accompanying map 
as the next to the last cove on the northern shore of 
Stepovak Bay, but the detail of the map is slight and 
this is not known with certainty to be the correct loca¬ 
tion. We were led to it by an Indian who told us of 
its name and that it was a good hunting ground, and as 
