The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 3National Geographic Society, 1892 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 90
... border of the glacier , across the barren field of stones , I came at length to the brink of a precipice of dirty ice more than a hundred feet high , at the foot of which flowed a swift stream of turbid water . A few hundred yards below ...
... border of the glacier , across the barren field of stones , I came at length to the brink of a precipice of dirty ice more than a hundred feet high , at the foot of which flowed a swift stream of turbid water . A few hundred yards below ...
Page 91
... border ran a broad terrace , marking the height of the great glacier which formerly occupied the site of Yakutat bay . The terrace formed a convenient pathway leading westward to a sharp ridge run- ning out from the mountains and ...
... border ran a broad terrace , marking the height of the great glacier which formerly occupied the site of Yakutat bay . The terrace formed a convenient pathway leading westward to a sharp ridge run- ning out from the mountains and ...
Page 92
... border of the glacier were concealed from view by a dense covering of vegeta- tion , and in places were clothed with forests of spruce trees . To the southward , beyond the end of the Lucia glacier , and separated from it by a torrent ...
... border of the glacier were concealed from view by a dense covering of vegeta- tion , and in places were clothed with forests of spruce trees . To the southward , beyond the end of the Lucia glacier , and separated from it by a torrent ...
Page 93
... borders , like the expanded extremity of the Lucia glacier , are covered with débris , on the outer margins of which dense vegetation has taken root . All the central portion of the ice - sheet is clear of moraines , and shone in the ...
... borders , like the expanded extremity of the Lucia glacier , are covered with débris , on the outer margins of which dense vegetation has taken root . All the central portion of the ice - sheet is clear of moraines , and shone in the ...
Page 97
... borders of the island is due , to some extent at least , to the abrasion of the rocks by the glacial ice which once encir- cled it . Pulling our canoe far up on the beach , we began the ascent of the cliffs . Hundreds of sea birds ...
... borders of the island is due , to some extent at least , to the abrasion of the rocks by the glacial ice which once encir- cled it . Pulling our canoe far up on the beach , we began the ascent of the cliffs . Hundreds of sea birds ...
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Agassiz glacier Alaska Amazon appears avalanches base beneath Bering Bering island Bering's Blossom island border camp canoe carts chart Coast and Geodetic crest crevasses débris dense Disenchantment bay eastern elevation Elias range Elias region expedition exploration feet flows formed Geodetic Survey GEOG Geological Survey glacial Haenke island height Hitchcock range ice-streams Icy bay indicated Kamshatka Kerr l'Isle l'Isle's lake land longitude lower Lucia glacier Malaspina glacier margin Marvine glacier melting miles moraines Mount Augusta Mount Cook Mount Owen Mount St NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC National Geographic Society névé night observations peaks Pinnacle system plateau Port Mulgrave portion reached ridge river rocks route rugged Russian sandstone Seward glacier shale shore side slope snow snow-fields southern southward steep stones storm stream Street summit surface tent terrace tion topographic tunnel valley vegetation voyage western westward Yakutat bay Yakutat system