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...