Alaska Land. Among the Glaciers, Cascades and Yosemite Rocks. How Nature Works in Icy Solitudes-Rock Sculpture. Searching for the King of Glaciers. An Alaska Sunday. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Sum Dum Bay, August 29, 1880.

• Main Author: Muir, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1880
• Subjects: Environmentalist; naturalist; travel; conservation; national parks; John Muir; history; pamphlets; journal articles; speeches; writing; annotation; Great Glacier; glacier; glaciers; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/154; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmb/article/1153/viewcontent/107.pdf

15 ALABEA-LAND. the Glaciers* Cascades Yosemite Bocks, ami . How Nature Works in loy Solitudes-- ' , *&. , Rock Sculptor.*. . WW ferytmhg "0"ut"'wiag8.~rHeadJaL\d after head- | ad, in sseH imposing array, are seen piungrag ' eer and. bare from dizzy heights, and.plant- g theirfeet in the ice-encumbered water, ' "without leaving a spot ,orj which one could land from a boat, while no part of 'the great glacier tatpourwall these sonata .milesof ice into the fiord Is visible. Pushing our way slowly through? ! the packed bergs, and passing point'after point, looking eagerly forward, it is still oat of sight.1 - cut off by other hjjga projecting: bosses, towards I which I-urged my way, enjoymef the sxtraor: ! tilnary grandeur of the wild unfinished Yo- Semite. Domes swell against the sky in fine tines as lofty and as perfect in form as those of the California Valley, and rock fronts stand for- • ijTard, as sheer1 and: as nobly as* No ice-work flhat I-have ever seen surf asea thl j, either in the tojAgnitude of tho features or, effectiveness of I composition. -• .#w vU,.~j~ j IDE CAHYOHS—3HAIiBB DAGIEB8--ROCB. aCOLPTDES. On some of las narrow benches and tables of the walls rows of Bpruee trees and two-leafed j pine are growing, and patches' of considerable j size are found on the spreading bases of those auountains that stand back in tea,side canyons, vhere the contfnniur of the walls is broken. Borne of these side canyons are cut down to' *he'Ieve of the water'and reach far back, opening,views Qfsttxpagmgbearrty- and safe* limttat'lSto groups of glacier fountains that ' pive rise to many a noble stream; while al1. elong the tops of tne walls on both sides smalla** glaciers are seen, still .busily engaged in the svork of completing tfa&sctUpttfte of--+e-reek3 : mjxbieh--they- flaw, 'Tu-ihii oin5'aemTte I 1 counted twenty-five from the cauoe. Probably the drainage of fifty er more pours into this- fiord. The average elevation at which they *nelt is about 1,800 feet above sea level,, and all Bf them- are ...