July-August 1879, Alaska Trip Image 46

• Main Author: Muir, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1879
• Subjects: John Muir; journals; drawings; writings; travel; journaling; naturalist; Great Glacier; glacier; glaciers; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/1426; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmj-all/article/2425/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg

These are the most striking and attractive of the features. Small glaciers mostly buried in snow and seeming far smaller than they really are, attract but little attention from the ordinary observer; they are simply regarded as snow banks, remnants of the general mantle of winter. But a great glacie...