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small compared with others I saw, and which we 

 named, situated near St. Elias, and especially one 

 which I named Behring's Great Glacier, near Cape 

 Suckling, south of the Copper Eiver ; yet it is by no 

 means small, as the following measurements show. 

 At one point the glacier is 10,664 ft. wide; a solid 

 stream of ice 5,000 ft. in width and 700 ft. in depth is 

 continually entering the sea, and when the measure- 

 ments were taken it was moving at the rate of 40 ft. 

 each day. Not a tree can be seen upon the bare 

 ice-polished mountains surrounding it. 



In a westerly direction, under the rays of the even- 

 ing sun, we could descry the summits of the follow- 

 ing grand peaks of Mount La Perouse (11,300 ft.), 

 Mount Lituya (10,000 ft), Mount Crillon (15,900 ft.), 

 Mount Fairweather (15,500 ft.). Here is an easily 

 accessible range of unconquered mountains for 

 the Alpine Club. We were bent on a worthier 

 enemy, namely, one 19,500 ft. to 20,000 ft. in 

 height. 



This would be a good opportunity for a few 

 remarks on the exact position,* topographical and 

 political, of Mount St. Elias, which I did not lay 

 enough stress upon before the Koyal Geographical 

 Society. This, the highest mountain on the conti- 

 nent; belongs not to the United States, who have 

 wrongfully claimed it, but to Canada. The former 

 have removed it (on paper) several miles west of the 



* See Alpine Journal, November, 1888, and subsequently. 

 (Longmans, Green & Co.) 



