The Glaciers Of Alaska

From Bute inlet to Unimak pass nearly every deep gulch has its glacicr, some of which are vastly greater and grarder üian any glacier of the Alpa. So that the American students need no longer go abroad to study glacial action. In one of the gulches of Mount Fairweatber is a glacier that extends fifty miles to the sea - where it breaks off, a perpendicular wall 300 feet high and eigbt miles broad. Thirty-five miles abovo Wrangel, on the Strickeen river, between two mountains 3,000 feet high, is an immense glacier forty miles long, and at the base four to five miles across, and variously estimated from 500 to 1,000 feet high o'r deep. Opposite this glacier is a personification of a íniglity Ice God who has issued fi-om out his mountain home and invested with power before wbich all nature bows in swbmission. They describe Min as crashing his way through the canyon till its glistening pinuaclen looked upon the domains of the Ei ver God, and that af ter a conflict the Ice God conquered, and spanned the river breadth so completely that the River God was forced to crawl nnderneath. The Indians then sent their medicine man to learn how this could be avoided. The answer carne that if a noble ohief and fair maiden would offer themselves as a saeriöce by taking passage under the long, dark, winding arch, his anger would be appeased, and the river be allowed to go on ita way undisturbed. Whon the two were found and adorned, their arms bound, and seated in the canoe, the fatal journey was made, and the ice has never again attempted to cross the river. At one of these glaciers ships have anchored and taken on a