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2 the spruce as far as I have seen all the rest of the ground is embossed with plushy grass ferns (4 kinds) heathwarts (Cassiope,
Vaccimums, Empetrum, Kalmia, rhododendron, Loisleuria etc), primula, geranium rose Tofieldia dwarf willows, dwarf birch, Alder,
daisy, fritillaria cypripedium a magnificent purple orchis blue bell, sedums, saxifrages, potentilla, gemm? , buttercups,
rubus, ribes, anemome, etc etc etc scare a square inch of surface up to a height of 1500 or 2000 feet above the sea is bare
It is all one rich furred carpet or bossy plushy mantle embroidered with purple golden flowers. The rhododendron is purple,
only a few inches high, large flowers It is just coming into bloom the extensive beds must make glorious shows when it is
in prime a week or two later. The spruce ends about the middle of the island thence Westward 1500 miles there are no forest
trees of any sort. but endless wealth of grass ferns flowers. Tomorrow or next day we will return to pick up the parties we
left on the peninsula island thence we mean to go to Unalaska stopping at several islands by the way, Thence to the seal islands,
Thence to Indian Point on the Siberian Coast St Mathews Island in Behring Sea thence home perhaps. 02598