. Shores and Alps of Alaska . e hours work, she hardly seemed to haveadvanced much. Kaiak was still twenty-five miles distant. Bysunrise we had made five miles. After breakfastthe sweeps were got out, and with the help of lightairs we made considerable way again. Cape Suck-ling was now full in view, and appeared to consistof two rocky wooded points running out into thesea and terminating in red cliffs. Behind them arange of hills, with bare, bright-green summits, runs M2 SHORES AND ALPS OF ALASKA. back ten or twelve miles. On each side lie low land,sand-bars, lagoons, and forest flats. This st
. Shores and Alps of Alaska . e hours work, she hardly seemed to haveadvanced much. Kaiak was still twenty-five miles distant. Bysunrise we had made five miles. After breakfastthe sweeps were got out, and with the help of lightairs we made considerable way again. Cape Suck-ling was now full in view, and appeared to consistof two rocky wooded points running out into thesea and terminating in red cliffs. Behind them arange of hills, with bare, bright-green summits, runs M2 SHORES AND ALPS OF ALASKA. back ten or twelve miles. On each side lie low land,sand-bars, lagoons, and forest flats. This strip ofverdant land, like an oasis in the wilderness, is cutoff and imprisoned on the inland side by the inter-minable plains of glaciers that my eye was now sofamiliar with—part of the white plains that descendfrom the before-mentioned snow range I had seenfrom the slopes of Mount St. Elias from a heightof 7000 feet, nowT stretched out full in view,dazzling, spotless, and immense. Further to the ™^.—. Cape St. Elias. wTest lay Cape Martin, the extremity of a rangeslightly higher than that of Cape Suckliug, andapparently not so hemmed in and closely pressedupon from behind by the seas of ice, which hereretire farther inland. The sun was oppressive. We were rolling lazilyin the swell, and close to the Sea-Otter Eocks,where nets are laid during the winter for theotters by the traders. Kaiak Island runs seawarda length of twenty miles ; it is flat and thicklyforested. At the south end Cape St. Elias, a vast CAPE ST. ELI AS. 143 rock apparently 2000 feet high, with roundedoutline, rises suddenly, isolated, and with preci-pitous sides white and shining—a wonderful andunmistakable landmark, wTith a cloud generallyreposing on its top. Cape St. Elias was named and described byCook and the early Russian navigators and fur-hunters. The former named the island after , and its name seems to have degenerated intoKayak or Kaiak. He also left a bottle with so
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