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MARY MINTUEN RIVER. 
and could be traced by the configuration of the hills as 
far as a large inner fiord. I called it Mary Minturn 
River, after the sister of Mrs. Henry Grinnell. Its 
course was afterward pursued to an interior glacier, 
from the base of which it was found to issue in nume¬ 
rous streams, that united into a single trunk about forty 
miles above its mouth. By the banks ol this stream 
we encamped, lulled by the unusual music of running 
waters. 
Here, protected from the frost by the infiltration of 
the melted snows, and fostered by the reverberation of 
