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The camp hands were John Dalton, Joseph Woods, and several 

 Indian packers.* 



From Icy bay the expedition proceeded inland, for about six- 

 teen miles, in a line leading nearly due north, toward the summit 

 of Mount St. Elias. The highest point reached, 7,200 feet, was 

 on the foot-hills of the main range now called the Karr hills. 

 The time occujjied by the expedition, after leaving Icy bay, was 

 nine or ten days. So far as known, no systematic surveys were 

 carried on. 



An interesting account of this expedition appeared in Seton- 

 Karr's book, " The Shores and Alps of Alaska." Many observa- 

 tions on the glaciers and moraines of the region explored are 

 recorded in this work. The map published with it has been 

 used in compiling the western portion of the map forming plate 

 8, where the route of the expedition is indicated. Another ac- 

 count, especially valuable for its records of scientific observations, 

 by Professor Libbey, was published by the American Geographic 

 Society. The Guyot, Agassiz and Tyndall glaciers, the Chaix 

 hills, and Lake Castani received their names during this expedi- 

 tion. 



Lieutenant Schwatka's graphic and entertaining account of 

 this expedition, published in The Century Magazine for April, 

 1891, gives many details of the exploration and illustrates many 

 of the characteristic features of southern Alaska. 



ToPHAM Expedition, 1888. 



An exj^edition conducted by Messrs. W. H. and Edwin Topham, 

 of London, George Broka, of Brussels, and William Williams, 

 of New York, was made in 1888. Like the Twie>( expedition, it 

 had for its main obiect the ascent of Moimt St. Elias. 



Icy bay was reached, by means of canoes from Yakutat bay, 

 on July 13, and an inland journey was made northward which 



* The accounts of this expedition are as follows ; Report from Lieutenant 

 Schwatka in the New York Timex, October 17, 1886 ; Some of tlie Geograpli- 

 ical Features of Southeastern Alaska, by William Libbey, Jr., in Bull. Am. 

 Geog. iSoc, 1886, pp. 279-300 ; Shores and Alps of Alaska, by H. W. Seton 

 Karr, London, 1887, 8°, pp. L-XCV, 142-148 ; Tlie Alpine Regions of Alaska, 

 by Lieutenant Seton-Karr, in Proc. Roy. Geog. Soc, vol. IX, 1887, pp. 269- 

 285 ; The Expedition of " The New York Times " (1886), by Lieutenant 

 Schwatka, in The Century Magazine, K^r\\, 1891, pp. 865-872. 



