. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. Till-; WORST ]â WADE IN .woin of crimson Mowers, while a semi - circular shore, with a yellow rihbou of sand, was backed by a green fringe of spruce, and on either side tow- ered snow-capped moun- tains, extending half way down the lake, where rounded and rolling hills sank into a great llat, extending to Cook Inlet on the west and Turn- again Arm on the north. A wide valley on the left, with a muddy Hoor, resembling a for m e r river-course, and through which there trickled sev- eral small streams, Tom said was the outwash pla
. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. Till-; WORST ]â WADE IN .woin of crimson Mowers, while a semi - circular shore, with a yellow rihbou of sand, was backed by a green fringe of spruce, and on either side tow- ered snow-capped moun- tains, extending half way down the lake, where rounded and rolling hills sank into a great llat, extending to Cook Inlet on the west and Turn- again Arm on the north. A wide valley on the left, with a muddy Hoor, resembling a for m e r river-course, and through which there trickled sev- eral small streams, Tom said was the outwash plain of a great glacier, beginning a few miles back and extending, he thought, 65 miles to the southwest, b u t about which little was known or at least recorded. His statement imme- diately aroused my in- terest, and during the succeeding days I learned much about the great ice field from which the Skilak glacier flowed; so that on my return to Seward, and later to ^\'ashington, I was able by dint of much inquiry to learn something fur- ther of its historjr, with a view of suggesting in a general way the possi- bilities of its origin and its probable status among the great ice fields of the northern conti- nent. Contmuing down the lake, Tom pointed out what he called a "low divide" in the southern rang'e, sa\'ing it was the gate- way to the sheep country, 10 miles or so in the interior. In the setting sun the distant patches of alders and matted for- ests looked like smooth greenswards on gently sloping sides and the climb ap- peared easyâan impression, however, which changed considerably when wc. I'iiutu by Geoigt: bhiiab, 3id \KT 01" 'I'UACKIXC, : KEOUIKIXr, THE MEN TO SWIFT W.\TER 01' UXCEKTAIX DEPTH T(J ,-j,\AlS AND 0\'ERTI.\Xl",l XC, TREI'tS. 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 orig
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