June-October 1881, Cruise of the Corwin, Part II Image 158

• Main Author: Muir, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1881
• Subjects: John Muir; journals; drawings; writings; travel; journaling; naturalist; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Boothia Peninsula; Tundra
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/2160; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmj-all/article/3159/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg

For a long time this point was believed to be the northern extreme of the Am[erican] continent, but Boothia peninsula proves to be a little beyond this. At first sight it would seem a gloomy thing to look forward to 3 years in so remote and so severely desolate and forbidding a region [Pt. Barrow],...