. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. 120 JOHN MUIR and Washington, groups of larger residual glaciers still exist on all the highest mountains — The Three Sisters, Mounts Jefferson, Hood, St. Helens, Adams, Rainier, Baker and others. From Mount Rainier, the highest of this series of volcanic cones, eight glaciers five to ten miles long radiate, descending to within 3,000 or 4,000 feet of the sea level. On through British Columbia and southeastern Alaska the broad, lofty mountains along the coast are usually laden with ice. The upper branches of nearly all the canyons are occup
. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. 120 JOHN MUIR and Washington, groups of larger residual glaciers still exist on all the highest mountains — The Three Sisters, Mounts Jefferson, Hood, St. Helens, Adams, Rainier, Baker and others. From Mount Rainier, the highest of this series of volcanic cones, eight glaciers five to ten miles long radiate, descending to within 3,000 or 4,000 feet of the sea level. On through British Columbia and southeastern Alaska the broad, lofty mountains along the coast are usually laden with ice. The upper branches of nearly all the canyons are occupied by glaciers, which in- crease in size gradually and descend lower until the region which is highest and snowiest, between latitudes 560 and 6i° is reached, where a considerable number discharge fleets of icebergs into the sea. This is the Iceland of Alaska, the region of greatest glacial abundance on the west side of the continent. It is about 500 miles long, 100 broad, and probably i n - eludes nine- tenths of the ice on the coast. To the north of lati- tude 6i° the glaciers di- minish in size and number to about latitude 620 30' or 630. Beyond this all the way up to the north end of the continent few if any glaciers now exist, the ground being comparatively low and the snowfall light. In the iciest region the smaller glaciers, a mile or two to ten or fifteen miles in length, once tributary to large ones, now fill all the subordinate canyons and upper hol- lows of the mountains in countless HANGING GLACIER, LYNN Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899); Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909; Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942; Washington Academy of Sciences (Washington, D. C. ). New York, Doubleday, Page & Company
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