June-September 1879, Expedition to Alaska Image 9

• Main Author: Muir, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1879
• Subjects: John Muir; journals; drawings; writings; travel; journaling; naturalist; glacier; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/1339; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmj-all/article/2338/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg

13 covered pretty closely with mosses, polytrichium & hyphae & also [several] lichens but little [erosion] has been effected. Probably the grand channel of Davis straights & Fucca with innumerable inlets & islands & bays of puget sound would [ ] from the solid by inaction. Certainly [they] all through deep were filled with gl [glacier] ice. From [ ] Victoria to Olympia the scenery [was] is perfectly enchanting. A more [cheery] composition of water & land than can before behold. The rock quartzite [ ] granite & highly [metamorphic] slate on Vancouver Island 14 near Victoria. Sandstone all the way up the sound. Therefore comparatively low & featureless. The [harder] rocks on grand scale furrowed into, hills & vales running par with dir [direction] of ice. [sketch] & [ ] everywhere. Lodged among the [bald] [ ] [ ] are beds of rolled boulders & pebbles. [The formation & depositions of wh I do not understand]. Aug 1st do now Nothing or little of these deposits [ ] in the gl [regions] of the [ ]. There must have been https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/2338/thumbnail.jpg