Field note book[s], Crocker Land Expedition, 1913-1915
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Dr. Hayes House at Booth Bay, "Directly opposite to the landing and about forty yards from the clod. This ererie which ran parallel with the coast, was about 8 feet in width and quite level at the top. On the east side the rock was six feet high, smooth and vertical up to where it was broken in two places, forming at each a cliff. The other side was lower, being not more than from three to four feet high, and was round and sloping as if to make up for this defect; it was however, set by a lateral cliff." "The walls were fourteen feet apart, four feet high, and three feet thick." We went upon the rock on the west side a ladder, of which the ayer was six feet from the ground, and which closed down under