October-December 1879, First Alaska Trip with S. Hall Young Image 51

• Main Author: Muir, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1879
• Subjects: John Muir; journals; drawings; writings; travel; journaling; naturalist; Big Bluff; Noble Glacier; glacier; Tidewater; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/1652; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmj-all/article/2651/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg

At length we found a little inlet, the mouth of a stream which drains a large gl[acier] into which we gladly pushed our canoe, everybody benumbed. A white cross, pure white, stood as a mark and a sign of welcome on the black wave-beaten shore rocks. It was a weathered chiseled ice-berg. How pure it...