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29 September
Spec. 586, 587, +588 Intrusive
Granite collected by Captain
H.C. Pickels on Conical Rock
off Parker Snow Point.
The specimens are duplicates
broken from one fragment.
3 October. "Ipwisuk"
Ashore this morning with Ekblaw, Jren
and Capt. Pickels.
There is a strong copper stain (malac-
chite?) coloring a three or four foot band
of the schist, cu 200 feet above the
sea at the northeast turn of the bay.
Seems to be due to alteration of chal-
copyrite.
The high grass covered talus shows
many vertical crevices due to [illegible]
downward creep
On 7 October - Local = Ipwisuk
On shore with Ekblaw, climbing
to top of mountain overlooking