EXPLORATIONS IN GLACIER BAY 



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Fiord named for Wellesley, Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Smith, 

 and Radcliffe colleges are the finest and wildest of their 

 kind, looking, as they come bounding down a smooth 

 mountain side through the midst of lush flowery gardens 

 and goat pastures, like tremendous leaping, dancing cata- 

 racts in prime of flood. 



COLLEGE FIORD, PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND. 

 BRYN MAWR GLACIER ON LEFT ; HARVARD IN DISTANCE. 



None of the glaciers south of Icy Strait were visited by 

 the expedition, though telling glimpses of them were ob- 

 tained in the bright weather as we sailed through the en- 

 chanting Alexander Archipelago, the icy canyons opening 

 and closing as we advanced and showing their wealth 

 like the quickly turned leaves of a picture-book. In 

 Glacier Bay we remained nearly a week, so that we were 

 able to note the changes which had taken place since my 

 first visit in the fall of 1879. I then sailed around the 

 bay, exploring all its branches and sketching the glaciers 

 which occupied them, sailing up to their discharging fronts 

 and landing on those which were not rendered inaccessible 

 by the freezing together of their crowded bergs. Then 

 there were only six berg-discharging glaciers in the bay; 

 now there are nine, the three new ones being formed by 

 one of the tributaries of the Hugh Miller and two of the 



