Travels in Alaska 



around the mill are being rapidly nibbled away. Wind 

 is here said to be very violent at times, blowing away 

 people and houses and sweeping scud far up the moun- 

 tain-side. Winter snow is seldom more than a foot or 

 two deep. 



June 21. We arrived at Douglas Island at five in 

 the afternoon and went sight-seeing through the mill. 

 Six hundred tons of low-grade quartz are crushed per 

 day. Juneau, on the mainland opposite the Douglas 

 Island mills, is quite a village, well supplied with 

 stores, churches, etc. A dance-house in which Indians 

 are supposed to show native dances of all sorts is per- 

 haps the best-patronized of all the places of amuse- 

 ment. A Mr. Brooks, who prints a paper here, gave 

 us some information on Mt. St. Elias, Mt. Wrangell, 

 and the Cook Inlet and Prince William Sound region. 

 He told Russell that he would never reach the sum- 

 mit of St. Elias, that it was inaccessible. He saw no 

 glaciers that discharged bergs into the sea at Cook 

 Inlet, but many in Prince William Sound. 



June 22. Leaving Juneau at noon, we had a good 

 view of the Auk Glacier at the mouth of the channel 

 between Douglas Island and the mainland, and of 

 Eagle Glacier a few miles north of the Auk on the 

 east side of Lynn Canal. Then the Davidson Glacier 

 came in sight, finely curved, striped with medial 

 moraines, and girdled in front by its magnificent tree- 

 fringed terminal moraine; and besides these many 

 others of every size and pattern on the mountains 



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