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Cook Inlet is a drowned river valley in a plain of partly indurated sands and clays of Eocene age, known as the Kenai formation.

— Frederica de Laguna The Archaeology of Cook Inlet, Alaska (1934)

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I saw several dogskins hung up to dry. On account of the scarcity of caribou and polar bears, the Greenlanders have to use dogskins for their winter furs. The dogs have fine thick fur, but nothing to compare with that of bears and caribou.

Voyage to Greenland (1977)

The ground was thawed to a depth of thirty centimeters. For the rough work of clearing the ground the men used spades and a pickaxe, but as soon as the real excavation began Mathiassen produced the geological spades with little blades, which were better for the more delicate work.

Voyage to Greenland (1977)

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