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2 than I now have. This is a grand fact. While the crystal glaciers were creating Yosemite Valley a thousand were uniting
here to make Behring Strait Behring Sea. The south side of the Alentian chain? of islands was the boundary of the continent
the ocean. Since the Tom Pope came into the harbor I have written five Bulletin letters which are for you mostly therefore
I need the less to write any detailed narrative of the cruise She will sail at the same hour as we do, her Captain Mr Millard
who has been many times in the Arctic both here on the Greenland 3 side has promised to make you a visit, will be able
to give you much information. If I could only get a line one word from you to know that you were all well I would be content
to wait the end of the voyage with patience fortitude But my dear its terrible at times to have to endure in so long a dark
silence We will not be likely to get a word before September No doubt you have already received the six or seven letters that
I sent from Oonalaska St Paul, also the two or three Bulletin letters fromOonalaska, Write to Bartlett or the office for a
day? copies of each save them for me. 01012