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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 
[THIRD SERIES.| 
Art. 1.—The Muir Glacier ; by G. FREDERICK WRIGHT. 
1. Description of Glacier Bay. 
THE Muir glacier enters an inlet of the same name at the 
head of Glacier Bay, Alaska, in latitude 58° 50’, longitude 136° 
40’ west of Greenwich. (See fig. 1.)* Glacier Bay is a body 
of water about thirty miles long and from eight to twelve miles 
wide (but narrowing to about three miles at its upper end) pro- 
jecting in a northwest direction from the eastern end of Cross 
Sound. The peninsula inclosed between Glacier Bay, Cross 
Sound and the Pacific Ocean is from thirty to forty miles wide 
and contains numerous lofty mountain peaks. Mount Crillon, 
opposite the head of the bay, is 15,900 feet high, and Mount 
Fairweather, a little farther north, is 15,500 feet. Mounts 
Lituya and LaPerouse, lying on either side of Crillon, are not 
far from 10,000 feet above the sea. To the east, between 
Glacier Bay and Lynn Channel, is a peninsula extending con- 
siderably south of the mouth of the bay, and occupied by the 
White mountains, whose height I am unable to ascertain, but 
probably having no peaks exceeding 10,000 feet. 
Near the mouth of Glacier Bay is a cluster of low islands 
named after Commander Beardslee, of the U.S. Navy. There 
are twenty-five or thirty of these, and they are composed of 
* The maps have been largely made from original data. They are square with 
_ the compass, which bears here, however, 28° east of north. 
AM. JOUR. Sc1.— THIRD SuRieSs, VOL. XXXIII, No. 193.—January, 1887. 
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