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estimate of 12,672 feet to 19,500, according to the triangulation of 
Mr. Baker. This may yet undergo some change, but from the 
account of Mr. Seton Karr it appears that the breadth of its 
form and the high mountains behind it caused Mount St. Elias 
to be underestimated, while the isolated position of Mount Hood 
caused the reverse. It is now stated that Mount Wrangel, some 
_ distance to the north of Mount St. Elias, rises 18,400 feet above 
the forks of Copper River, which are 2000 feet above the sea. If 
this estimate, made by Lieutenant Allen, is correct, Mount Wran- 
gel is 1000 feet higher than Mount St. Elias, so that after all the 
United States possesses the highest peak on the North American 
continent. 
LASKA GLACIERS.—The country that intervenes between the 
St. Elias Alps and the sea, from Cross Sound to the Copper River 
(Alaska), with the exception of small areas of flat land east of 
Yakatat Bay, and east of Icy Bay, consists entirely of glaciers, 
the terminal moraines of which are so extensive that the ice lies 
buried under millions of tons and hundreds of square miles o 
loose rocks which it has carried down from the mountains. The 
Agassiz Glacier is probably about six hundred square miles in 
extents while the Great Guyot Glacier, west of it, is of quite 
unknown area. e early navigators mistook the nature of the 
country. Vancouver describes it as “a barren country, com- 
posed of loose stones,” and La Perouse mistook the protruding 
ice for snow lying on the ground. 
_ the Welle at Ali Kobos in Bassange Land (in a straight line 
_ With the Ngala) was so wide that Dr. Junker could not deter- 
