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Sep. 16. Mild, half clear. Temp. 53. Coaling at St. Michaels. Now seeming homeward bound, it is trying to stop here. Sep. 17. Bade friends, the trades, and wives goodbye. Examined the lava bluff below the Indian village. Found it composed of black cinders roughly stratified, and scarce at all coheri...
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ftunivpacificmsl:oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:jmj-all-3203 2023-06-11T04:17:23+02:00 June-October 1881, Cruise of the Corwin, Part II Image 202 Muir, John 1881-06-01T07:52:58Z image/jpeg https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/2204 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmj-all/article/3203/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg eng eng Scholarly Commons https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/2204 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmj-all/article/3203/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg To view additional information on copyright and related rights of this item, such as to purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish them, click here to view the Holt-Atherton Special Collections policies . All John Muir Journals John Muir journals drawings writings travel journaling naturalist text 1881 ftunivpacificmsl 2023-05-06T22:34:03Z Sep. 16. Mild, half clear. Temp. 53. Coaling at St. Michaels. Now seeming homeward bound, it is trying to stop here. Sep. 17. Bade friends, the trades, and wives goodbye. Examined the lava bluff below the Indian village. Found it composed of black cinders roughly stratified, and scarce at all cohering. At the water-line there is a stratum of compact gray sandstone with fragments of trachyte, etc., then the black cinders, next a stratum 8 – 10 ft. in thickness of compact lava with mud and tundra vegetation. Noticed gray muddy water issuing in several places from base of the bluff, with cracks on top of tundra and a vegetation similar to that on Elephant Point, indicating ice beneath the tundra. Left St. Michaels for St. Lawrence Bay at 6 P.M. Calm. Fog settling on the mountains, the craters. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/3203/thumbnail.jpg Text Tundra University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law: Scholarly Commons Indian The Bluff ENVELOPE(-61.567,-61.567,-64.367,-64.367) Elephant Point ENVELOPE(-60.857,-60.857,-62.692,-62.692) Lawrence Bay ENVELOPE(-102.134,-102.134,55.767,55.767) |
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Sep. 16. Mild, half clear. Temp. 53. Coaling at St. Michaels. Now seeming homeward bound, it is trying to stop here. Sep. 17. Bade friends, the trades, and wives goodbye. Examined the lava bluff below the Indian village. Found it composed of black cinders roughly stratified, and scarce at all cohering. At the water-line there is a stratum of compact gray sandstone with fragments of trachyte, etc., then the black cinders, next a stratum 8 – 10 ft. in thickness of compact lava with mud and tundra vegetation. Noticed gray muddy water issuing in several places from base of the bluff, with cracks on top of tundra and a vegetation similar to that on Elephant Point, indicating ice beneath the tundra. Left St. Michaels for St. Lawrence Bay at 6 P.M. Calm. Fog settling on the mountains, the craters. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/3203/thumbnail.jpg |
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