Arctic Alaska, Canada, 1963, [diaries]
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July 30. A dark morning but no rain - just mist. Out on road north of town I looked at large area that had been bulldozed, presumably for an eventual gravel pit, as done south of Inniswit. Finally got Alvina, intractable with this diet. Then down to river, or at least the channel used by boats coming to Inniswit, near large oil tanks farm. Willows wet but not as bad as yesterday & very glad I went in, in spite of much reluctance, because a brand new moss to me - Myriophyllum ? - was growing in abundance on dirt over bases of willows, where inundated in flood times. God save us, with springthistles, for as dicotati. Back to hotel about