Alaska field notes, v4411
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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