C.W. Joranson 1908 Field Notes. 16 Aug. Holbham Bay, Alaska. The tide has been ebbing about an hour and a half. The day is bright, warm, changing breeze, cumulus cloud hanging over Adm-ralty Island toward the West. A large iceberg has been crack- ing up leaving the mid section of the bay littered with chunks about fifty feet smaller square, 4-5 feet high. Four days ago, this big berg floated passed Dundum Island & ran aground several hundred yds south of the light house. It was then about 400 ft long wide and 50 ft high - Every 30 minutes or so either a large por- tion of it will crack off with a loud report, then a roaring sound will continue until the pieces have come to rest this may take a minute because the pieces when turning more comparatively slowly like the roll of a ship. A flock of perhaps 600 Herring gulls have been sitting on the spit of sand that protrudes out into the bay from the southern shore of Dundum Pen. They have