54 I. C. Russell — Expedition to Mount St. Elias. 



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Across Pinnacle Pass 129 



First full View of St. Elias 135 



Summit of Pinnacle Pass Clilfs 137 



Across" Seward Glacier to Dome Pass 142 



Up the Agassiz Glacier 147 



Camp on the Newton Glacier 150 



Highest Point reached 151 



Alone in the highest Camp 154 



The Return 158 



Suggestions 163 



Part III— Sketch of the Geology of the St. Elias Region 167 



Generel Features 167 



Yakutat System — 167 



Pinnacle System --. 170 



St. Elias Schist 173 



Geological Structure 174 



Part IV — Glaciers of the St. Elias Region 176 



Natural Divisions of Glaciers — 176 



Alpine Glaciers 176 



Characteristics of Alpine Glaciers above the Snow-Line 180 



Characteristics of Alpine Glaciers below the Show-Line 183 



Piedmont Glaciers 185 



Part V— Height and Position of Mount St. Elias 189 



Appendix A — Official Instructions governing the Expedition 192 



Appendix B — Report on topographic "Work ; by Mark B. Kerr 195 



Appendix C — Report on auriferous Sands from Yakutat Bay ; by J. 



Stanley-Brown 196 



Appendix D — Report on fossil Plants ; by Lester F. "Ward 199 



Index — - 201 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Plate 2— Sketch Map of Alaska .' 53 



3— Map of the St. Elias Region, after La Perouse .-- — 60 



4 — Map of the Eastern Shore of Yakutat Bay, after Dixon 62 



5_Map of the St. Elias Region, after Malaspina 64 



6— Map of Bay de Monti, after Malaspina 66 



7 — Map of Disenchantment Bay, after Malaspina — 68 



8_Sketch Map of St. Elias Region, by Mark B. Kerr 75 



9 — The Hubbard Glacier; drawn from Photograph by A. L. 



Broadbent 100 



10 — Wall of Ice on Eastern Side of the Atrevida Glacier ; from a 



Photograph 102 



11 — View on the Atrevida Glacier; from a Photograph 104 



12 — Entrance of an Ice-Tunnel ; from a Photograph 106 



13 — Deltas in an Abandoned Lake-Bed ; from a Photograph 108 



14 — A River on the Lucia Glacier; from a Photograph (repro- 

 duced from The Century, April, 1891) 110 



