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being rolled over and over, for ages, under 

 this great body of ice, until finally thrown 

 out on the moraine. 



Chief Shakes tells me that when his father 

 first traveled on the Stickeen, this glacier 

 extended to the river; and that he, him- 

 self, knew it when it was very much nearer 

 than now. Just back of Buck's bar, on the 

 opposite side of the river, facing the Great 

 glacier, is another and much smaller one. 

 Indian tradition has it, that many years 

 ago the 2 met, forming a great arch over 



from below, as proof of their having suc- 

 cessfully passed through. 



These old men were ever afterward held 

 in the highest esteem by their tribal asso- 

 ciates. Canoes were no longer carried 

 around, but travelers passed up and down 

 stream beneath the ice bridge until, in the 

 course of many years, it gradually wasted 

 away and tumbled into the river. 



A few miles above the Great glacier. Mud 

 or Dirt glacier pours through a defile, and 

 still farther up is the Flood glacier. These 

 first 4 are to the North of the river. The 



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the river several miles wide, around which 

 the Indians carried their canoes and traps, 

 over the ice. It is said that once, while a 

 party of them were camped on the river's 

 bank, just above this barrier, they con- 

 cluded to put 2 of their number — " men 

 who had grown worthless with age " — into 

 a canoe and send them down stream, under 

 the ice bridge, in order to ascertain if the 

 passage could thus be made. 



Imagine the surprise of the camp when, 

 several hours later, these 2 aged canoemen 

 came paddling back up the stream, bring- 

 ing with them the green branches of trees, 



TELEGRAPH, ALASKA; THE ONLY "CITY" 

 ON THE STICKEEN RIVER. 



Recreation has ten subscribers who get mail at this 

 Post-Office. 



Flood glacier is so named from its walls of 

 ice, high up in the mountains, so formed 

 as to shut in behind them the waters of a 

 large lake. Several times this dam has been 

 known to break, turning loose the waters 

 of the lake and flooding the country below. 



Last of the important glaciers is the Por- 

 cupine, which is South of the river and 

 which is recognized as being the largest in 

 the Stickeen region, though as yet but little 

 known. 



Beyond the Porcupine moraine is the 



