Travels in Alaska 



five hundred feet, pyrola, veratrum, vaccinium, fine 

 grasses, sedges, willows, mountain-ash, buttercups, 

 and acres of the most luxuriant cassiope are in bloom. 



A lake encumbered with icebergs lies at the end of 

 Divide Glacier. A spacious, level-floored valley be- 

 yond it, eight or ten miles long, with forested moun- 

 tains on its west side, perhaps discharges to the south- 

 eastward into Lynn Canal. The divide of the glacier 

 is about opposite the third of the eastern tributaries. 

 Another berg-dotted lake into which the drainage of 

 the Braided Glacier flows, lies a few miles to the west- 

 ward and is one and a half miles long. Berg Lake is 

 next the remarkable Girdled Glacier to the southeast- 

 ward. 



When the ice-period was in its prime, much of the 

 Muir Glacier that now flows northward into Howling 

 Valley flowed southward into Glacier Bay as a tribu- 

 tary of the Muir. All the rock contours show this, and 

 so do the medial moraines. Berg Lake is crowded 

 with bergs because they have no outlet and melt 

 slowly. I heard none discharged. I had a hard time 

 crossing the Divide Glacier, on which I camped. 

 Half a mile back from the lake I gleaned a little fossil 

 wood and made a fire on moraine boulders for tea. I 

 slept fairly well on the sled. I heard the roar of four 

 cascades on a shaggy green mountain on the west side 

 of Howling Valley and saw three wild goats fifteen 

 hundred feet up in the steep grassy pastures. 



July 14. I rose at four o'clock this cloudy and dis- 

 mal morning and looked for my goats, but saw only 



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