. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. 126 JOHN MUIR lavishly snow-fed, and of course give birth to fewer bergs; while, as we have seen, the decadent second-class gla- ciers, with no ice to spare for bergs, reach their greatest size at the base of the St. Elias ICE FRONT OF MUIR GLACIER. Of the nine berg-bearing glaciers in Glacier Bay the Muir is the largest, the main trunk below the confluence of the principal tributaries being about twenty-five miles wide, while the area of its basin can hardly be less than a thousand square miles. The most active of the three Disench
. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. 126 JOHN MUIR lavishly snow-fed, and of course give birth to fewer bergs; while, as we have seen, the decadent second-class gla- ciers, with no ice to spare for bergs, reach their greatest size at the base of the St. Elias ICE FRONT OF MUIR GLACIER. Of the nine berg-bearing glaciers in Glacier Bay the Muir is the largest, the main trunk below the confluence of the principal tributaries being about twenty-five miles wide, while the area of its basin can hardly be less than a thousand square miles. The most active of the three Disenchantment Bay glaciers is the Hubbard, a truly noble glacier. It has two main tributaries pouring majestic floods into the broad, widely crevassed trunk, and it furnishes most of the bergs which fill the upper end of the bay from shore to shore. The grandest and most active of the ten Prince Will- iam Sound glaciers visited by the Harriman Expedition, so far as I saw them, are the Columbia, Harvard, and Yale, though the Barry, Ser- pentine, Har- riman and Sur- prise—the last three discovered by the expedition — are also superb and imposing; while the cascading glaciers in Port Wells willW/rftf/Wtti *-'!?'. 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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