Alaska, its waters, land and life; an illustrated lecture . glistening cliffs which rise two hundred feet from the waters edge; and if we nearthem we shall discover this high, broad face to be of ice, generally opaque, but sometimesof transparent, irridescent blue, scintillating with the sun, and fantastically carved, gougedinto innumerable designs of protrusion and depression, many of great size, some highlyarchitectural, ornate. These are the results of the meltings and uneven fractures of aglacier that is moving at a rate of sixty feet per day towards the sea; and as we pause wemay hear the
Alaska, its waters, land and life; an illustrated lecture . glistening cliffs which rise two hundred feet from the waters edge; and if we nearthem we shall discover this high, broad face to be of ice, generally opaque, but sometimesof transparent, irridescent blue, scintillating with the sun, and fantastically carved, gougedinto innumerable designs of protrusion and depression, many of great size, some highlyarchitectural, ornate. These are the results of the meltings and uneven fractures of aglacier that is moving at a rate of sixty feet per day towards the sea; and as we pause wemay hear the crash and thunderings, heavy, like some long drawn cannonade, of the iceboulders breaking away from the glacier and falling into the bay, there to float upon thesurface and become Top of Muir Glacier. 8 ALASKA, ITS WATERS, AND LIFE.
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