FAR AND NEAR 



handed as it had set out. The ship in the mean 

 time steamed back ten miles to a side arm of the bay, 

 at tlie head of which is Hidden Glacier, so called 

 because hidden from view behind a shoulder of the 

 mountain. A broad gravel-bed with a stream wind- 

 ing through it, which the retreating glacier had 

 uncovered, was alone visible from the ship. While 

 Gannett and Gilbert proceeded to survey and map 

 the glacier, many of us wandered on shore amid 

 a world of moraines and gravel-banks. In the after- 

 noon we moved to the vicinity of the Hubbard Gla- 

 cier, where the ship took a fresh supply of water 

 from a mountain torrent, while the glacier hunters 

 viewed the Nunatak Glacier, and the mineralogists 

 with their hammers prowled upon the shore. My 

 own diversion that afternoon was to climb one of 

 the near mountains to an altitude of about twenty- 

 five hundred feet, where I looked dov/n at a fearful 

 angle into the sea, and where I found my first tit- 

 lark's nest. The bird with her shining eyes looked 

 out upon me, and upon the sublime scene, from a 

 little cavity in a mossy bank near the snow^-line. Her 

 nest held six dark-brown eggs. Some pussy willows 

 near by were just starting. I thought to reach the 

 peak of the mountain up a broad and very steep 

 band of snow, but I looked back once too often. The 

 descent to the sea was too easy and too fearful for 

 my imagination, so I cautiously turned back. In a 

 large patch of alders at the foot of the mountain four 



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