. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. raines— the waste from melting and evaporation equal- ing or exceeding the supply. The best known of this class are the Baird and Patter- son, at the head of fiords opening into Prince Frederick Sound, and the Auk, Eagle, and Davidson glaciers, seen from Lynn Canal; but the largest front the ocean along the Fairweather and St. Elias ranges. The Malaspina Glacier is the largest of all, being about twenty miles long and sixty-five or seventy wide, a vast plateau of ice at the base of the St. Elias Mountains, separated from the sea by a girdle
. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. raines— the waste from melting and evaporation equal- ing or exceeding the supply. The best known of this class are the Baird and Patter- son, at the head of fiords opening into Prince Frederick Sound, and the Auk, Eagle, and Davidson glaciers, seen from Lynn Canal; but the largest front the ocean along the Fairweather and St. Elias ranges. The Malaspina Glacier is the largest of all, being about twenty miles long and sixty-five or seventy wide, a vast plateau of ice at the base of the St. Elias Mountains, separated from the sea by a girdle of forested moraines DAVIDSON GLACIER, LYNN CANAL FRONT AND SIDE 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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