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Wrole Harbor Admiralty St.
May 19-
June 11-
We arrived here Sunday noon May
19, after a stormy voyage from Windfall
Harbor. The country here is somewhat
different than that at Windfall Harbor.
There is a series of low rolling hills
toward the west, which reach an
altitude of 575 feet backs from the beach
about 2 miles. Then there is a
steep slope with a lake at the bottom.
The whole interior of the island
west of here is low land with a
border of mountains all around it.
A Mr. Al. Basselborg of Jimean had
previously discovered these 3 lakes
while prospecting and he was perhaps
the only white man that knew any-
things about trips to this time. He
was employed as guide and took us
over. The first two lakes are practically
one. They are about 2 x 1 and 1 x ½ miles
in extent respectively. They have
an altitude of about 300 feet and extend
in a northwesterly direction. There