ILLUSTRATIONS.
Plate 2—[Sketch Map of Alaska]
3—[Map of the St. Elias Region, after La Pérouse]
4—[Map of the Eastern Shore of Yakutat Bay, after Dixon]
5—[Map of the St. Elias Region, after Malaspina]
6—[Map of Bay de Monti, after Malaspina]
7—[Map of Disenchantment Bay, after Malaspina]
8—[Sketch Map of St. Elias Region, by Mark B. Kerr]
9—[The Hubbard Glacier; drawn from Photograph by A. L. Broadbent]
10—[Wall of Ice on Eastern Side of the Atrevida Glacier; from a Photograph]
11—[View on the Atrevida Glacier; from a Photograph]
12—[Entrance of an Ice-Tunnel; from a Photograph]
13—[Deltas in an Abandoned Lake-Bed; from a Photograph]
14—[A River on the Lucia Glacier; from a Photograph (reproduced from The Century, April, 1891)]
15—[Entrance to a Glacial Tunnel; from a Photograph]
16—[View of the Malaspina Glacier from Blossom Island; from a Photograph]
17—[Moraines on the Marvine Glacier; from a Photograph]
18—[View of the Hitchcock Range from near Dome Pass]
19—[View of Mount St. Elias from Dome Pass; drawn from a Photograph]
20—[View of Mount St. Elias from Seward Glacier; drawn from a Photograph]
Figure 1—[Diagram illustrating the Formation of Icebergs]
2—[View of a glacial Lakelet; from a Photograph]
3—[Section of a glacial Lakelet]
4—[Diagram illustrating the Formation of marginal Crevasses]
5—[Crevasses near Pinnacle Pass; from a Photograph]
6—[Snow Crests on Ridges and Peaks; from Field Sketches]
7—[Faulted Pebble from Pinnacle Pass]
8—[Faulted Pebble from Pinnacle Pass]
INTRODUCTION.
THE SOUTHERN COAST OF ALASKA.
The southern coast of Alaska is remarkable for the regularity of its general outline. If a circle a thousand miles in diameter be inscribed on a map of the northern Pacific with a point in about latitude 54° and longitude 145° as a center, a large part of its northern periphery will be found to coincide with the southern shore of Alaska between Dixon entrance on the east and the Alaska peninsula on the west. On the northern part of this great coast-circle lies the region explored in the summer of 1890 and described in the following pages.
From Cross sound, at the northern end of the great system of islands forming southeastern Alaska, westward along the base of the Fairweather range, the mountains are exceedingly rugged, and present some of the finest coast scenery in the world. There are but two inlets east of Yakutat bay on this shore which afford shelter even for small boats. These are Lituya bay and Dry bay. Ships may enter Lituya bay, at certain stages of the tide, and find a safe harbor within; but the approaches to Dry bay are not navigable. West of Yakutat bay the coast is equally inhospitable all the way to Prince William sound.