Alaska, its waters, land and life; an illustrated lecture . enomenal colorings. One long ice mound will bepink, another purple, and a third a diamond gulch in the range bears one, and in a reach ofthirty miles of mountains, there are no less thansixty-one of these strange ice bodies. But the most remarkable of all the curious featuresin relation to this glacier, more remarkable it has seemedto me than that luxuriance of spikenards, shrubsand ferns which grows upon its surface, is that preattunnel at the base of the glacier, out of which thererushes the Yahtsee River. It is the accum
Alaska, its waters, land and life; an illustrated lecture . enomenal colorings. One long ice mound will bepink, another purple, and a third a diamond gulch in the range bears one, and in a reach ofthirty miles of mountains, there are no less thansixty-one of these strange ice bodies. But the most remarkable of all the curious featuresin relation to this glacier, more remarkable it has seemedto me than that luxuriance of spikenards, shrubsand ferns which grows upon its surface, is that preattunnel at the base of the glacier, out of which thererushes the Yahtsee River. It is the accumulatedmeltings and seepage of the vast ice field that finds itsexit here, and it has borne with it millions of tons ofdetritus from the upper zone, which it has subsequentlydeposited and with it killed and nearly buried a of spruce which lay before it on its route to theA Jungle of Vegetation on the Top of the oceau. We Steam past Sitka, the seat of the government Malaspina Glacier. Spruce Forest Killed by the YahtS ver en route to the THE ALEXANDRIAN ARCHIPELAGO AND THE ALASKAN PENINSULA. / •tt-cS: The Indian Sectionof Sitl<a. of Alaska under past and present regimes andobserve it to be a pleasant town of about 1200,half of whom are natives. As we proceednorthwester]} along the line of the coast thegrand and imposing form of Mount St. Eliaslooms in sight, its summit draped in fog, itsshoulders epaulet ted with snow. It is 18,024feet high, next highest to Mount Logan, whichstands behind it and which is the loftiest heightof land in North America. Proceeding westerly we shall pass the verymarshy delta of the Copper River, the mainlandforested with spruce and overhung by sombre mountains, every rift in the ragged shore line being filled with shim;neri: g j^Iaciers. TheCopper is a swift and tortuous stream, filled with rapids and wholly unnavigable. Copperdeposits are abundant upon it, and gold is claimed to have been found upon several ofits northern ben
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