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THE DISCOVERY OF GLACIER BAY, ALASKA 
both for ]\Ir Muir. Cai)tain Mblliam George, pilot of the Idaho, 
sent a sketch maj) and notes, -with record of the names they had 
bestowed, to the Coast Survey. It was ni}’’ good fortune to be 
one of the Idaho's passengers on that voyage, and a pleasure later 
to inform Mr Muir at his Martinez ranch that the great glacier 
had been named for him. “ M’hich one of the glaciers do they 
call mine?” was his amused question and only reply. Mr INIuir 
did not bestow any names in the course of his first ice explora- 
tions in Alaska. 
The bay has not yet been surveyed and charted by the gov- 
ernment, although the Pacific Coast Steamship Compan}'’s ves- 
sels have regularly visited it since 1883 and landed thousands 
