of 



while the others were swept down into a~cre- 

 vasse and buried so deeply in the snow and 

 ice that their bodies could not be recovered. 

 Scientists said that at the rate the glacier was 

 moving it would give up its dead after forty 

 years. Far down the mountain forty-one years 

 afterward, the ice gave up its victims. A writer 

 has founded on this incident an interesting 

 story, in which the bodies are recovered in an 

 excellent state of preservation, and an old wo- 

 man with sunken cheeks and gray hair clasps 

 the youthful body of her lover of long ago, the 

 guide. 



Where morainal debris covers thousands of 

 acres, it is probable that valuable mineral veins 

 were in some cases covered, prospecting pre- 

 vented, and mineral wealth lost; but on the 

 other hand, the erosion done by the glacier, often 

 cutting down several hundred feet, has in many 

 cases uncovered leads which otherwise prob- 

 ably would have been left buried beyond search. 

 Then, too, millions of dollars of placer gold have 

 been washed from moraines. 



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