In Camp at Glacier Bay 



I noticed a few bergs near Cape Fanshawe from 

 Wrangell Glacier. The water ten miles from Wrangell 

 is colored with particles derived mostly from the 

 Stickeen River glaciers and Le Conte Glacier. All the 

 waters of the channels north of Wrangell are green 

 or yellowish from glacier erosion. We had a good view 

 of the glaciers all the way to Juneau, but not of their 

 high, cloud-veiled fountains. The stranded bergs on 

 the moraine bar at the mouth of Sum Dum Bay 

 looked just as they did when I first saw them ten 

 years ago. 



Before reaching Juneau, the Queen proceeded up 

 the Taku Inlet that the passengers might see the fine 

 glacier at its head, and ventured to within half a mile 

 of the berg-discharging front, which is about three 

 quarters of a mile wide. Bergs fell but seldom, per- 

 haps one in half an hour. The glacier makes a rapid 

 descent near the front. The inlet, therefore, will not 

 be much extended beyond its present limit by the 

 recession of the glacier. The grand rocks on either 

 side of its channel show ice-action in telling style. 

 The Norris Glacier, about two miles below the Taku, 

 is a good example of a glacier in the first stage of 

 decadence. The Taku River enters the head of the 

 inlet a little to the east of the glaciers, coming from 

 beyond the main coast range. All the tourists are de- 

 lighted at seeing a grand glacier in the flesh. The 

 scenery is very fine here and in the channel at Juneau. 

 On Douglas Island there is a large mill of 240 stamps, 

 all run by one small water-wheel, which, however, is 

 acted on by water at enormous pressure. The forests 



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