July-August 1879, Alaska Trip Image 24

• Main Author: Muir, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1879
• Subjects: John Muir; journals; drawings; writings; travel; journaling; naturalist; Jagged; Long Sound; glacier; glaciers; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/1404; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmj-all/article/2403/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg

There is a noble group of glaciers here, some 8 or 10 of them from 3 to 15 miles long, flowing in beautiful curves from a highly complicated range of womb-shaped fountains guarded by sharp, jagged, aspiring peaks and pinnacles, and with wide canons steeply walled and cut down to the level of the sea. Three of the main trunk-glaciers come down to sea-level or nearly, one certainly does. This one, fed by 8 or 10 tributaries and probably 15 miles long, shoves its snout into the head of a long sound and was resorted to for ice by ships. They could lie alongside. Another received two grand tributaries about equal in size and then flows at a low angle down through the forested valley to within one or two hundred feet of the sea level and back from the shore not more than a mile, probably not so much. The main glacier S. E. with 5 main tributary valleys lies in the Yosemite which it fills from wall to wall. { Sketch } https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/2403/thumbnail.jpg