June-July 1899, Harriman Expedition to Alaska, Part II Image 44

• Main Author: Muir, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1899
• Subjects: John Muir; journals; drawings; writings; travel; journaling; naturalist; Fairweather; Pyramid; glaciers; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/2702; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmj-all/article/3701/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg

by the time I had finished my sketch it was clear and all the way down the coast to Cape Spenser the Fairweather [Sketch] Range was absolutely cloudless and glowed in its robes of snow and ice with ineffable beauty and glory of light. The water, too, was beautiful, [Sketch: To [parallel] [moraines] being reformed - ice supported on [mountain] side] shades of green and blue from vast quantity of [glacial] mud poured into the sea by majestic array of [glaciers]. Mt. St. Elias was clear at 2 A.M. then cloudy, but ere we reached Fairweather its top pyramid rose clear above the [clouds] and remained visible until we were 140 or 150 [miles] distant. Tho’ the sky was clear over Fairweather Range, it remained [cloudy] over St. Elias except the tip top. The wind was at our backs and just enough to balance the ship’s https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/3701/thumbnail.jpg