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47-4; 8-04. Bird Cliff west of big gulch
about two miles from schooner. Shows pin-
nacle, great sill of diabase in the gneiss,
elevated sea-grotto about 60 feet above the bay.
47-5; 8-02. Grounded ice berg and its ice
foot. North side bay about 1 mi from ship.
The ice foot shows pressure and movement.
25 April. 47-6; 8-02. Crew at work
cutting ice away from about rudder -
26 April. Overland from eight (cache)
near Cape Dudley Digges to mouth of big
gulch. At and near cape rock is dark
gray hornblendeic gneiss strongly and
intricately contorted. Many veins of quartz
and of pink feldspar. Eight is northern
end of small valley crossing the point
and rather deeply incising it. Probably
due to corrosion of basic dike, but
now filled with mazed fractured rock
from its adjoining walls of gneiss, particu-
larly on the west. At crest there is quite
an area of flattish grass and moss covered
earth which evidently is very fertile. Grass
grows luxuriantly and the place is a great
resort of rabbits (hares). Note large
diabase dike on plateau trending about
S.E.-N.W. Frost disintegration block