The Recession of the Glaciers of Glacier Bay 77 





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Steamship Company had regularly run 

 up into the bay, and had experienced 

 little or no difficulty in approaching 

 within a few hundred yards, or as close 

 as it was deemed safe, to the face of the 



Muir glacier. The earthquake changed 

 all that. The glaciers seem to have been 

 completely shattered by the shock. Vast 

 masses of ice were discharged, which so 

 choked the bay that it was impossible for 



