. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. IN THE WORKSHOP OF THE GODS 43 toppled over, a great fragment of rock hung on the very edge, ready to be deposited upon the ridge, windrows of soil and gravel and boulders were clinging to the margin of the ice, but while I stayed not a pebble moved, all was silence and inertia. And I could look down between the glacier and the polished mountain side; they were not in contact; the hand of the sculptor was raised as it were, but he did not strike while I was around; in front of me upon the glacier for many miles was a perfect wilder- ness of
. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. IN THE WORKSHOP OF THE GODS 43 toppled over, a great fragment of rock hung on the very edge, ready to be deposited upon the ridge, windrows of soil and gravel and boulders were clinging to the margin of the ice, but while I stayed not a pebble moved, all was silence and inertia. And I could look down between the glacier and the polished mountain side; they were not in contact; the hand of the sculptor was raised as it were, but he did not strike while I was around; in front of me upon the glacier for many miles was a perfect wilder- ness of crevasses, the ice was ridged and contorted like an angry sea, but not a sound, not a movement CREVASSES ON MUIR GLACIER. Go out on the eastern rim of the glacier where for a dozen miles or more one walks upon a nearly level plain of ice, and if one did not know to the contrary, he would be sure he saw the agency of man all about him. It is so rare to find nature working with such measure and pre- cision. Here, for instance, is a railroad embankment stretching off across this ice prairie — a line of soil, gravel and boulders, as uniform in width and thickness as if every inch of it had been carefully measured — straight, level, three feet high and about the width of a single-track road. The eye follows it till it fades away in the distance. Parallel with it a few yards away is another line of soil and gravel more suggestive of a wagon road, only with what marvelous evenness is the material distributed: it. 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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