Many Elephant Bones. They and the Bodies With Flesh Yet on Them in Alaska. Muir's Strange Story. Behring Sea Can Be Bridged-How He Found the Great Glacier.

• Main Author: Muir, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1889
• Subjects: Environmentalist; naturalist; travel; conservation; national parks; John Muir; history; pamphlets; journal articles; speeches; writing; annotation; Great Glacier; Sida; Yukon; glacier; Yukon river; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/661; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmb/article/1660/viewcontent/A6_a.pdf

38 MANY ELEPHANT BONES They and the bodies with flesh yet on them in Alaska MUIR'S STRANGE STORY Behring Sea Can Be BridgedΓÇöHow He Found the Great Glacier- Elephants' tusks and bones, and, in many instances, their flesh yet sticking to the bones are found in the valley of the Yukon river," said Geologist John Jf uir to a reporter last night. - . '.' There are so many things new and strange np there," added the discoverer of the greatest glacier in the world, "that have not yet come to the knowledge of the public, that one who has seen them hesitates where to begin. .-'INow,I aaid these elephant remains were found all over the great valley of the .Yukon. As a matter of fact they are found everywhere throughout the great southwestern slope of Alaska. . . " Dana and Sir Charles Lyell s'tartled the world by announcing that hairy, frozen elephants were found wedged among the Siberian icebergs, but scarcely anybody knows that throughout Alaska are remains of countless thousand^ of these huge mastodons. You can dig them out and find them on the surface anywhere. I saw hundreds of them possibly on my last trip and I am now anxiously trying to get "tip thereto complete my investigations. . - j like moles in the gbott.vd. ""So thick are the elephant remains that the native Indians, on finding ihem buried partially in the ground, decided they were some kind of a great mole that burrowed in the soil. This is the story they gave me. I collected a lot of the remains, and I now have some well-preserved bones and some remarkably well-preserved tusks at my horns in Martinez. Γûá '"The collecting of elephant tnsks everv summer is a Tegular business in Siberia, just over Behring sea. We ha^ye just as many of them on the Alaska sida as they ever had in Siberia." Ages aeo great herds of elephants roamed o-ver these shores. Perhaps tltey existed down to a comparatively recent date, too, for the hairy bodies.and theiwell-preserved' boues: give evidence of that. - ' BRIDGING BEHBL3"G SEA. "Senator Stanford's girdle of steel round ...