. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. THE MUIR GLACIER. The next day finds us in Glacier Bay on our way to the Muir Glacier. Our course is up an arm of the sea, dotted with masses of floating ice, till in the distance we see the great glacier itself. Its front looks gray and dim there twenty miles away, but in the background the mountains that feed it lift up vast masses of snow in the afternoon sun. At five o'clock we drop anchor about two miles from its front, in eighty fathoms of water, abreast of the little cabin on the east shore built by John Muir some years ago. Not till
. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. THE MUIR GLACIER. The next day finds us in Glacier Bay on our way to the Muir Glacier. Our course is up an arm of the sea, dotted with masses of floating ice, till in the distance we see the great glacier itself. Its front looks gray and dim there twenty miles away, but in the background the mountains that feed it lift up vast masses of snow in the afternoon sun. At five o'clock we drop anchor about two miles from its front, in eighty fathoms of water, abreast of the little cabin on the east shore built by John Muir some years ago. Not till after repeated soundings did we find bot- tom within reach of our an- chor cables. Could the inlet have been emptied of its water for a moment we should have seen before us a pali- sade of ice nearly 1,000 feet higher and over two miles long, with a turbid river, possibly half a mile wide, boiling. MUIR CABIN, GLACIER BAY, BUILT IN 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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