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A Trip Across Admiralty Island
We left Mole Harbor, on the east
side of the island and about 11 o'clock on
Tuesday morning June 11, 1907. The
party consisted of Miss A. Mr. Alexander
Allen C. Hasselborg and myself. It took
me an hour and 25 minutes to reach
the first lake which has been named
Lake Alexander. The canoe had been
left there previously so we embarked
for our trip down the lakes and river.
We soon passed three Beaver Lake
and made a short portage to Hasselborg
Lake and then 20 minutes paddling
brought me to the outlet and the head
of the river.
We had to portage around a
rapids about a quarter of a mile long
and then we came to a big deep channel
about 1/2 mile long that ran almost
parallel with more rapids. We found
a number of such old channels that
had evidently been robbed by the newer
channel, of its water. By making
short portages down the bed of the