October-December 1879, First Alaska Trip with S. Hall Young Image 48
We all hoped and guessed the old prohet was mistaken in his prognostics last night. Before reaching Point Vanderpeut rain began to fall and the dreaded S wind to blow, which soon increased to a stiff breeze, next thing to a gale, which lashed the Sound into white-cap waves. Cape V[anderpeut] is the...
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| Summary: | We all hoped and guessed the old prohet was mistaken in his prognostics last night. Before reaching Point Vanderpeut rain began to fall and the dreaded S wind to blow, which soon increased to a stiff breeze, next thing to a gale, which lashed the Sound into white-cap waves. Cape V[anderpeut] is the long narrow moraine putting sharply out into the Sound, deposited by a large gl[acier] that once fronted the channel and extended 6 or 8 ms. out from the E shore. The remnants of this noble gl[acier] are also noble, three grand glaciers that now are distinct and flow down to the sea-level, though their snouts are back in narrow fiords 8 or 10 ms. from the salt water, the greater portion of the intervening ground being moraine beds covered with thick growth of spruce. The point seems to be part of the ter[mina] mor[aine] of the ancient gl[acier]. A smiliar point puts out 5 or 6 ms. to the S. while the missing portion is submerged and forms a shoal thus [diagram]. All of the Cape is forested save a narrow point a mile long composed of gl[acial] boulders and gravel, against which the waves were now beating with loud roar. Farther out a mile or so a curve of foam showed where the waves were breaking on the scarcely submerged boulders of the mor[aine[. I supposed as we made our way out to the point that we would be compelled to beat out beyond the submerged portion also, but To[yatte], the captain, though cautious, determined to break {Sketch: 10 ms. of course seen. Flows SE. Level. Clds. Hide source, mouth ½ m. wide, 2 ms. wide 3 or 4 back.} https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/2648/thumbnail.jpg |
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