Travels in Alaska 



trunk, bluish on the east, pure white on the west and 

 north; its trains of moraines in magnificent curving 

 lines and many colors — black, gray, red, and brown; 

 the stormy, cataract-like, crevassed sections ; the hun- 

 dred fountains; the lofty, pure white Fairweather 

 Range; the thunder of the plunging bergs; the fleet of 

 bergs sailing tranquilly in the inlet — formed a glow- 

 ing picture of nature's beauty and power. 



July 2, I crossed the inlet with Mr. Reid and Mr. 

 Adams to-day. The stratified drift on the west side 

 all the way from top to base contains fossil wood. On 

 the east side, as far as I have seen it, the wood occurs 

 only in one stratum at a height of about a hundred 

 and twenty feet in sand and clay. Some in a bank of 

 the west side are rooted in clay soil. I noticed a large 

 grove of stumps in a washed-out channel near the 

 glacier-front but had no time to examine closely. 

 Evidently a flood carrying great quantities of sand 

 and gravel had overwhelmed and broken off these 

 trees, leaving high stumps. The deposit, about a 

 hundred feet or more above them, had been recently 

 washed out by one of the draining streams of the 

 glacier, exposing a part of the old forest floor certainly 

 two or three centuries old. 



I climbed along the right bank of the lowest of the 

 tributaries and set a signal flag on a ridge fourteen 

 hundred feet high. This tributary is about one and a 

 fourth or one and a half miles wide and has four sec- 

 ondary tributaries. It reaches tide-water but gives 

 off no bergs. Later I climbed the large Nunatak 



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