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run in closer at right angles to former course in the direction of Icy [Bay] or Point, and going 10 [miles] nearer got good view of nearly all the great [glaciers]. The [West] side draining the slopes of St. Elias direct is white nearly to the sea and terminates in bluffs like the ordinary front wal...
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ftunivpacificdc:oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:jmj-all-3699 2023-08-27T04:09:33+02:00 June-July 1899, Harriman Expedition to Alaska, Part II Image 42 Muir, John 1899-06-01T08:00:00Z image/jpeg https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/2700 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmj-all/article/3699/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg eng eng Scholarly Commons https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/2700 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmj-all/article/3699/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg To view additional information on copyright and related rights of this item, such as to purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish them, click here to view the Holt-Atherton Special Collections policies . All John Muir Journals John Muir journals drawings writings travel journaling naturalist text 1899 ftunivpacificdc 2023-08-07T21:04:31Z run in closer at right angles to former course in the direction of Icy [Bay] or Point, and going 10 [miles] nearer got good view of nearly all the great [glaciers]. The [West] side draining the slopes of St. Elias direct is white nearly to the sea and terminates in bluffs like the ordinary front wall of berg- producing [glaciers], tho’ not a berg was visible. Occasionally a mass is undermined by the waves [which] at high tide beat awash on several miles of the front, but as far as I could see or learn a mud or sandy flat is exposed at low tide everywhere and the [glacier] wall is being melted back and broken like rocky coasts. The rest of the [glacier] as seen from ship is very dirty brown black [yellow] with moraine accumulations. This margin is 8 or 10 [miles] wide in some places, in others not more than 2 or 3. Trees of good size are growing on the solidest parts and of course outer parts making a nearly continuous zone from the beginning of the dirty of the dirty portion. Widest and apparently oldest near Yakutat, several [miles] wide thereabouts. Of course this moraine material on ice is being slowly reformed more rapidly where streams draining [glacier] emerge. More of [Sketch: Icy Bay and [glacier] to right under clouds] https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/3699/thumbnail.jpg Text glacier glaciers Yakutat Alaska University of the Pacific: Scholarly Commons |
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run in closer at right angles to former course in the direction of Icy [Bay] or Point, and going 10 [miles] nearer got good view of nearly all the great [glaciers]. The [West] side draining the slopes of St. Elias direct is white nearly to the sea and terminates in bluffs like the ordinary front wall of berg- producing [glaciers], tho’ not a berg was visible. Occasionally a mass is undermined by the waves [which] at high tide beat awash on several miles of the front, but as far as I could see or learn a mud or sandy flat is exposed at low tide everywhere and the [glacier] wall is being melted back and broken like rocky coasts. The rest of the [glacier] as seen from ship is very dirty brown black [yellow] with moraine accumulations. This margin is 8 or 10 [miles] wide in some places, in others not more than 2 or 3. Trees of good size are growing on the solidest parts and of course outer parts making a nearly continuous zone from the beginning of the dirty of the dirty portion. Widest and apparently oldest near Yakutat, several [miles] wide thereabouts. Of course this moraine material on ice is being slowly reformed more rapidly where streams draining [glacier] emerge. More of [Sketch: Icy Bay and [glacier] to right under clouds] https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/3699/thumbnail.jpg |
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