GLACIERS OF THE FIRST CLASS 



123 



is one; about a degree farther north, at the heads of 

 branches of Holkam Bay, there are four; in Taku Inlet 

 there is one; in Glacier Bay there are nine; in Lituya 

 Bay two; in Disenchantment Bay three; and in Prince 



iMSgft 



TURNER GLACIER, DISENCHANTMENT BAY. 



William Sound eleven. All the fiords into which these 

 glaciers of the first class flow are encumbered, some of 

 them jammed and crowded, with bergs of every conceiv- 

 able form, which by the most active of the glaciers are 

 given off at intervals of a few minutes with loud thun- 

 dering roaring 

 that may be 

 heard five or 

 six miles, pro- 

 claiming the 

 restless work 

 and motion of 

 these mighty 

 crystal rivers, 

 so widely con- 

 trasting with 

 the deathlike 

 stillness and 



silence of the second class decadent glaciers, though 

 they also, except at their decaying ends, are ceaselessly 



GIANT ICEBERG, GLACIER BAY. 



(MUIR AND ANOTHER MAN ON THE TOP ; BOAT IN 



FOREGROUND.) 



