Homeward Bound. End of the Corwin's Cruise in the Arctic Ocean. Elephant Point-A Fossil Glacier and its Exuberant Vegetation. Shipwrecked Prospectors-An Alaskan Silver Mine and Oonalaska Scenery. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Steamer Corwin, Oonalaska, October 4, 1881.

At Kotzebue Sound while the Corwin was being repaired, Muir explored a remnant glacier at Elephant Point, so named for the fossilized tusks found there. Of their two weeks' stay at Unalaska, Muir writes that it ""has been restful after our long cruise-about fourteen thousand miles alt...

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Published: San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Oct. 31 1881
Subjects:
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Elephant Point
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spelling ftunivpacific:oai:cdm16745.contentdm.oclc.org:p16745coll2/1443 2023-05-15T15:01:31+02:00 Homeward Bound. End of the Corwin's Cruise in the Arctic Ocean. Elephant Point-A Fossil Glacier and its Exuberant Vegetation. Shipwrecked Prospectors-An Alaskan Silver Mine and Oonalaska Scenery. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Steamer Corwin, Oonalaska, October 4, 1881. 1881-10-31 http://cdm16745.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16745coll2/id/1443 unknown San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Oct. 31 See also: no. 341, v. 7, pp. 224-[252]; no. 347, pp. 224-[231]. 1881 ftunivpacific 2016-07-27T10:19:38Z At Kotzebue Sound while the Corwin was being repaired, Muir explored a remnant glacier at Elephant Point, so named for the fossilized tusks found there. Of their two weeks' stay at Unalaska, Muir writes that it ""has been restful after our long cruise-about fourteen thousand miles altogether . ""He relates ""an excursion to the top of a well-formed volcanic cone at the mouth of a picturesque glacial fiord . commanding a magnificent view of the mountains . a noble picture to add to the thousand others which have enriched our lives this summer in the great Northland."" Other/Unknown Material Arctic Arctic Ocean University of the Pacific: Holt-Atherton Special Collections Arctic Arctic Ocean Elephant Point ENVELOPE(-60.857,-60.857,-62.692,-62.692)
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description At Kotzebue Sound while the Corwin was being repaired, Muir explored a remnant glacier at Elephant Point, so named for the fossilized tusks found there. Of their two weeks' stay at Unalaska, Muir writes that it ""has been restful after our long cruise-about fourteen thousand miles altogether . ""He relates ""an excursion to the top of a well-formed volcanic cone at the mouth of a picturesque glacial fiord . commanding a magnificent view of the mountains . a noble picture to add to the thousand others which have enriched our lives this summer in the great Northland.""
title Homeward Bound. End of the Corwin's Cruise in the Arctic Ocean. Elephant Point-A Fossil Glacier and its Exuberant Vegetation. Shipwrecked Prospectors-An Alaskan Silver Mine and Oonalaska Scenery. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Steamer Corwin, Oonalaska, October 4, 1881.
spellingShingle Homeward Bound. End of the Corwin's Cruise in the Arctic Ocean. Elephant Point-A Fossil Glacier and its Exuberant Vegetation. Shipwrecked Prospectors-An Alaskan Silver Mine and Oonalaska Scenery. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Steamer Corwin, Oonalaska, October 4, 1881.
title_short Homeward Bound. End of the Corwin's Cruise in the Arctic Ocean. Elephant Point-A Fossil Glacier and its Exuberant Vegetation. Shipwrecked Prospectors-An Alaskan Silver Mine and Oonalaska Scenery. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Steamer Corwin, Oonalaska, October 4, 1881.
title_full Homeward Bound. End of the Corwin's Cruise in the Arctic Ocean. Elephant Point-A Fossil Glacier and its Exuberant Vegetation. Shipwrecked Prospectors-An Alaskan Silver Mine and Oonalaska Scenery. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Steamer Corwin, Oonalaska, October 4, 1881.
title_fullStr Homeward Bound. End of the Corwin's Cruise in the Arctic Ocean. Elephant Point-A Fossil Glacier and its Exuberant Vegetation. Shipwrecked Prospectors-An Alaskan Silver Mine and Oonalaska Scenery. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Steamer Corwin, Oonalaska, October 4, 1881.
title_full_unstemmed Homeward Bound. End of the Corwin's Cruise in the Arctic Ocean. Elephant Point-A Fossil Glacier and its Exuberant Vegetation. Shipwrecked Prospectors-An Alaskan Silver Mine and Oonalaska Scenery. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Steamer Corwin, Oonalaska, October 4, 1881.
title_sort homeward bound. end of the corwin's cruise in the arctic ocean. elephant point-a fossil glacier and its exuberant vegetation. shipwrecked prospectors-an alaskan silver mine and oonalaska scenery. (special correspondence of the bulletin.) steamer corwin, oonalaska, october 4, 1881.
publisher San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Oct. 31
publishDate 1881
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Arctic Ocean
Elephant Point
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Arctic Ocean
Elephant Point
genre Arctic
Arctic Ocean
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Arctic Ocean
op_relation See also: no. 341, v. 7, pp. 224-[252]; no. 347, pp. 224-[231].
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