Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . Fig. 46.—Little Anyui River. Fourth elevated silt bank, showing trip, September, Fig. 47.—Little Anyui River. Sixth elevated silt bank, separated by sloughfrom Anyui proper. No fossils found. Down-river trip, September, 1914. taken to Nizhni Kolymsk on our return trip. This precaution proved to bequite necessary, as a thin crust of newly fallen snow covered the groundbefore we reached the settlement again. 36 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 66 The general aspect of these different elevat
Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . Fig. 46.—Little Anyui River. Fourth elevated silt bank, showing trip, September, Fig. 47.—Little Anyui River. Sixth elevated silt bank, separated by sloughfrom Anyui proper. No fossils found. Down-river trip, September, 1914. taken to Nizhni Kolymsk on our return trip. This precaution proved to bequite necessary, as a thin crust of newly fallen snow covered the groundbefore we reached the settlement again. 36 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 66 The general aspect of these different elevated silt banks resembled verj- muchthat of similar places in Alaska and Yukon Territory. The tops of the high,steep ramparts were overgrown with moss, lichen, a few Arctic plants, andgrasses—among them our own Labrador tea —and thin larches without anjunderbrush. The lower moist places of the surface exhibited an abundanceof niggerheads. Through many deep, narrow, cross gullies, worn by erosion into theseelevated silt beds, little streams of muddy water trickled into the river below. Often there was no shelf at all at the base of these elevated silt t
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