June-October 1881, Cruise of the Corwin, Part II Image 19

• Main Author: Muir, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1881
• Subjects: John Muir; journals; drawings; writings; travel; journaling; naturalist; Anchorage; Indian; Lawrence Island; Plover Bay; St Lawrence Island; walrus*
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/2021; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmj-all/article/3020/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg

and back of that a range of pure white mountains, with only here and there one with spots of dark color where the rock is too steep for snow to lie upon, some of them – most of them – absolutely immaculate close white. Sharp peaks, curving fluted crests, fluted by avalanche, glacial wombs delicate i...