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the blue waters, climbing the hills and glaciers and 

 warm, flowery islands, considering the abounding life — 

 everybody naturally enthusiastic and busy and happy 

 to the heart. The scenery about the head of Disen- 

 chantment Bay is gloriously wild and sublime — majestic 

 mountains and glaciers, barren moraines, bloom-covered 

 islands amid icy, swirling waters, enlivened by screaming 

 gulls, hair seals, and roaring bergs. On the other hand, 

 the beauty of the southern extension of the bay is tran- 

 quil and restful and perfectly enchanting. Its shores, 

 especially on the east side, are flowery and finely sculp- 

 tured, and the mountains, of moderate height, are charm- 

 ingly combined and reflected in the quiet waters. A 

 comparatively short time ago it was a fresh-water lake 

 about 150 feet above the tide — until it was lowered and 

 opened to the sea by the retreat of the Hubbard Glacier. 

 The front of the great Hubbard Glacier is about five 

 miles wide, and bergs are discharged from the west half 

 of it. The other half has receded from the bay and is 



covered with moraines, 

 i^#&^ \—^-^~-i sparsely planted here and 

 there with epilobium and 

 dwarf willows, where a 

 multitude of gulls breed. 

 The Turner Glacier, a 

 short distance to the west 

 of the Hubbard, is much 

 smaller and sends off but 

 few bergs. The Nunatak 



NUNATAK GLACIER. . ° 



Glacier discharges still 

 fewer, and at the present rate of waste will soon die 

 away into the second class, like its neighbor, the Hidden 

 Glacier. 



For an hour or two before we left Yakutat we enjoyed 

 glorious views of Malaspina's crystal prairie, and of St. 



