Gknora Peak 



drawn east and west from the peak on which I stood, 

 and extended both ways to the horizon, cutting the 

 whole round landscape in two equal parts, then all of 

 the south half would be bounded by these icy peaks, 

 which would seem to curve around half the horizon 

 and about twenty degrees more, though extending in 

 a general straight, or but moderately curved, line. 

 The deepest and thickest and highest of all this wild- 

 erness of peaks lie to the southwest. They are proba- 

 bly from about nine to twelve thousand feet high, 

 springing to this elevation from near the sea-level. 

 The peak on which these observations were made is 

 somewhere about seven thousand feet high, and from 

 here I estimated the height of the range. The highest 

 peak of all, or that seemed so to me, lies to the west- 

 ward at an estimated distance of about one hundred 

 and fifty or two hundred miles. Only its solid white 

 summit was visible. Possibly it may be the topmost 

 peak of St. Elias. Now look northward around the 

 other half of the horizon, and instead of countless 

 peaks crowding into the sky, you see a low brown 

 region, heaving and swelling in gentle curves, appar- 

 ently scarcely more waved than a rolling prairie. The 

 so-called canons of several forks of the upper Stickeen 

 are visible, but even where best seen in the foreground 

 and middle ground of the picture, they are like mere 

 sunken gorges, making scarce perceptible marks on 

 the landscape, while the tops of the highest moun- 

 tain-swells show only small patches of snow and no 

 glaciers. 



Glenora Peak, on which I stood, is the highest 



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