June-July 1890, Trip to Alaska; June-August 1893, Trip to Norway Image 17

• Main Author: Muir, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1890
• Subjects: John Muir; journals; drawings; writings; travel; journaling; naturalist; Norway; glacier; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/1864; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmj-all/article/2863/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg

28 masses perhaps 100 ft [feet] apart & sharpened by melting to points & blades. But at intervals of several 100 [hundreds] of feet lines of fraction occur par with front of wall wider deeper & wh [which] mark lines of sinking wh [which] produce a terraced appearance A cross-section like this is produced Sketch: direction of flow of the gl [glacier] --- water level Many lesser reports are heard at dist [distance] of mile or more from the fall of pinnacles into crevasses or from opening of new crevasses. The berg discharges are very irregular from 3 to 22 [bergs] per hour On one rising tide 6 hours there were 60 bergs discharged large enough to thunder to be heard heavily 29 at distances of from 3/4 to 1 1/2 ms [miles] from camp in tent. & on one succeeding falling tide 6 hrs [hours] 69. July 1 was awakened at 4 A.M. by whistle of the Elder on arrrival with 80 passengers? Went out & waved hand in salute & was answered by a toot from whistle of the steamer. Soon a party came ashore & asked if I was Prof. Muir. The leader introduced himself as Mr Reed of Cleveland, O. & his companions as Mr Cushing also of Cleveland & his young assistants ~ come to study the M [Muir] Gl. [glacier] with instruments to measure & map etc. They landed 7 or 8 tons of freight. & pitched camp beside ours, Am delighted to have company so congenial. Have now a village Found Mr [Hohn] among passengers & his daughters. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/2863/thumbnail.jpg