"Travels in Alaska 



abouts, Picea alha, very slender and graceful in 

 habit, drooping at the top like a mountain hemlock. I 

 saw fine specimens a hundred and twenty-five feet 

 high on deep bottom land a few miles below Glenora. 

 The tops of some of them were almost covered with 

 dense clusters of yellow and brown cones. 



We reached the old Hudson's Bay trading-post at 

 Glenora about one o'clock, and the captain informed 

 me that he would stop here until the next morning, 

 when he would make an early start for Wrangell. 



At a distance of about seven or eight miles to the 

 northeastward of the landing, there is an outstanding 

 group of mountains crowning a spur from the main 

 chain of the Coast Range, whose highest point rises 

 about eight thousand feet above the level of the sea; 

 and as Glenora is only a thousand feet above the sea, 

 the height to be overcome in climbing this peak is 

 about seven thousand feet. Though the time was 

 short I determined to climb it, because of the ad- 

 vantageous position it occupied for general views of 

 the peaks and glaciers of the east side of the great 

 range. 



Although it was now twenty minutes past three 

 and the days were getting short, I thought that by 

 rapid climbing I could reach the summit before sun- 

 set, in time to get a general view and a few pencil 

 sketches, and make my way back to the steamer in 

 the night. Mr. Young, one of the missionaries, asked 

 permission to accompany me, saying that he was a 

 good walker and climber and would not delay me or 

 cause any trouble. I strongly advised him not to go, 



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