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4 3 she will be afraid of my beard. I have a great quantity of ivory dolls toys ducks, bears, seals walruses etc for her
to play with, some soft white furs to make a little robe for her carriage. But it is a sore hard thing to be out of sight
of her so long of thee Louie but still sorer harder not to hear. Perhaps not one word until I reach San Francisco. You however
will hear often. I sent lots of letters by a schooner from Gonaluska? , one from St Paul Island a lot by a the returning whaler
Tom Pope one on the 21, I think, from St Michael this again will go from St Michael Then we will have a good many more opportunities
by the other whalers. This is a lovely cool clear bright day the mountains along the coast of Asia stand in glorious array
telling the grand old story of their birth beneath the sculpturing ice of the glacial period, but the snow still lingers here
there down to the waters edge a little beyond the mouth of Behring Strait the vast mysterious ice field of the north stretches
away beneath dark stormy sky for thousands of miles I landed on E. Cape yesterday found unmistakeable evidence of the passage
over it of a rigid ice-sheet 01016 5 4 from the north a fact wh is exceedingly telling here. Similar traces I have already
seen on the Di illegible on St Laurence Island along its entire length, on 300 or 400 miles of the Coast of Asia, also about
St Michaels. Showing clearly that Behrings Sea was once only a glacier lake, that Asia America have been separated by the
mechanical action of this grand frost flow. The south side of the Aleutian Chain of Islands was during the gl period the N.
boundary of the Pacific Ocean Asia American were one. My health is so good now that I never notice it. I climbed a mountain
at E Cape yesterday about 3000 feet high a mile through snow knee deep never felt fatigue my cheeks tingling in the north
wind. My cheeks are red now I eat all sorts of greasy stuff in heavy bulk. I wish I could make out a list of all the fish
flesh fowl, puddings gravies I have eaten for grand mothers study. I have a great quanty of material in my