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Red Bluff Bay, Baranoff Island, Alaska.
June 11 to 20 1907.
Red Bluff Bay is on the east side of Baranoff Island a little south of
its middle. It is about four miles long by one quarter to half of a mile
wide. Except at the head of the bay the shores are steep or precipitous, and
the surrounding mountains are high. At the head of the bay is a mud flat,
the terminus of the bottom land bordering a small river coming from the
west. There are a few acres of grass land bordering the tide line, but
above the reach of the highest tides the bottom is heavily timbered with
fir and hemlock, with much underbrush. The mountain sides are well timbered
but the summits are extensive snow fields. The snow comes early and deep
and lies late. It is evidently the coldest region we have visited as there
are still a few banks of snow down to the sea level. A few plants were
beginning to bloom, and the few days we were there showed a marked change
in the plants. Shell collecting at the head of the bay and on the sides was
very poor, but an hour spent on the outer beach near the entrance to the
bay was fairly productive, particularly in large chitons.
Frank Stephens