1881 July 4 JM to Louie p2a MSS 301
[Page 3] here I had very fine views of St. Lawrence Island from the north side, showing the trend of the ice-sheet, very plainly, much to my delight. The middle of the island is crowded with volcanic cones, mostly post-glacial, and therefore regular in form and but little wasted, and I counted upwar...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Text |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Scholarly Commons
1881
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/18857 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/43792/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg |
| id |
ftunivpacificmsl:oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:jmcl-43792 |
|---|---|
| record_format |
openpolar |
| spelling |
ftunivpacificmsl:oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:jmcl-43792 2023-06-11T04:12:49+02:00 1881 July 4 JM to Louie p2a MSS 301 Muir, John 1881-07-04T07:52:58Z image/jpeg https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/18857 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/43792/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg eng eng Scholarly Commons https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/18857 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/43792/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html John Muir Correspondence John Muir correspondence letters author writing naturalist California correspondent mail message post exchange of letters missive notes epistle text 1881 ftunivpacificmsl 2023-05-06T22:57:19Z [Page 3] here I had very fine views of St. Lawrence Island from the north side, showing the trend of the ice-sheet, very plainly, much to my delight. The middle of the island is crowded with volcanic cones, mostly post-glacial, and therefore regular in form and but little wasted, and I counted upwards of 50 from one point of view. Just in front of this volcanic portion on the Coast there is a dead Esquimo village where we landed and found that every soul of the population had died two yrs. ago of starvation. More than 200 skeletons were seen lying about like rubbish, in one hut 30, most of them in bed. Mr. E. W. Nelson, a zealous collector for the Smithsonian Institution, gathered about 100 skulls as https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/43792/thumbnail.jpg Text Ice Sheet St Lawrence Island University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law: Scholarly Commons Lawrence Island ENVELOPE(-103.718,-103.718,56.967,56.967) |
| institution |
Open Polar |
| collection |
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law: Scholarly Commons |
| op_collection_id |
ftunivpacificmsl |
| language |
English |
| topic |
John Muir correspondence letters author writing naturalist California correspondent message post exchange of letters missive notes epistle |
| spellingShingle |
John Muir correspondence letters author writing naturalist California correspondent message post exchange of letters missive notes epistle Muir, John 1881 July 4 JM to Louie p2a MSS 301 |
| topic_facet |
John Muir correspondence letters author writing naturalist California correspondent message post exchange of letters missive notes epistle |
| description |
[Page 3] here I had very fine views of St. Lawrence Island from the north side, showing the trend of the ice-sheet, very plainly, much to my delight. The middle of the island is crowded with volcanic cones, mostly post-glacial, and therefore regular in form and but little wasted, and I counted upwards of 50 from one point of view. Just in front of this volcanic portion on the Coast there is a dead Esquimo village where we landed and found that every soul of the population had died two yrs. ago of starvation. More than 200 skeletons were seen lying about like rubbish, in one hut 30, most of them in bed. Mr. E. W. Nelson, a zealous collector for the Smithsonian Institution, gathered about 100 skulls as https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/43792/thumbnail.jpg |
| format |
Text |
| author |
Muir, John |
| author_facet |
Muir, John |
| author_sort |
Muir, John |
| title |
1881 July 4 JM to Louie p2a MSS 301 |
| title_short |
1881 July 4 JM to Louie p2a MSS 301 |
| title_full |
1881 July 4 JM to Louie p2a MSS 301 |
| title_fullStr |
1881 July 4 JM to Louie p2a MSS 301 |
| title_full_unstemmed |
1881 July 4 JM to Louie p2a MSS 301 |
| title_sort |
1881 july 4 jm to louie p2a mss 301 |
| publisher |
Scholarly Commons |
| publishDate |
1881 |
| url |
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/18857 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/43792/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg |
| long_lat |
ENVELOPE(-103.718,-103.718,56.967,56.967) |
| geographic |
Lawrence Island |
| geographic_facet |
Lawrence Island |
| genre |
Ice Sheet St Lawrence Island |
| genre_facet |
Ice Sheet St Lawrence Island |
| op_source |
John Muir Correspondence |
| op_relation |
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/18857 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/43792/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg |
| op_rights |
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html |
| _version_ |
1768388922405027840 |