The ice age in North America and its bearing upon the antiquity of man5th edwith many new maps and illus., enland rewritten to incorporate the facts that bring it up to date, with chapters on Lake Agassiz and the Probable cause of glaciation . 16.—Map of Soiitheagtern Alaska. The arrow-points mark g^lacieiC. i oo &oc Oa -< aLAGIERS ON THE PACIFIC COAST. 25 Three great rivers interrupt the mountain barrier ofBritish Cokimbia facing the Pacific—the Fraser, the the Stickeen—and the interior is penetrated for somedistance by innumerable fiords. The Canadian Pacific
The ice age in North America and its bearing upon the antiquity of man5th edwith many new maps and illus., enland rewritten to incorporate the facts that bring it up to date, with chapters on Lake Agassiz and the Probable cause of glaciation . 16.—Map of Soiitheagtern Alaska. The arrow-points mark g^lacieiC. i oo &oc Oa -< aLAGIERS ON THE PACIFIC COAST. 25 Three great rivers interrupt the mountain barrier ofBritish Cokimbia facing the Pacific—the Fraser, the the Stickeen—and the interior is penetrated for somedistance by innumerable fiords. The Canadian Pacific Rail-road follows the course of the Fraser for a long distance, andpasses ^vithin sight of glaciers of considerable extent, andevery fiord receives the drainage of numerous decaying gla-ciers. But it is not until reaching the Stickeen River, inAlaska, in latitude 57°, that glaciers begin to appear whichare both easily accessible and large enough to invite pro-tracted study. The water comiag into the sound from theStickeen River is heavily charged with glacial mud, whichspreads itself out over a great expanse. An extensive delta,forming almost the only arable land in southeastern Alaska,has been built up by the deposit at the mouth of this earliest accurate information obtained concerning theseglaciers
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