Title

Alaska Land. An Eventful Day-Revelling Among the Glacial Monarchs. Fountain Source of Ice-Rivers-Wild Goats-Music of the Cascades. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Cascade Camp, Sum Dum Bay, August 29, 1880.

Authors

John Muir

Files

Kimes Entry Number

105

Original Date

10-9-1880

William and Maymie Kimes Annotation

""This morning one of my good times came after a year's waiting, for then I set out under a happy group of welcoming conditions to explore the long left arm of this icy bay, with everything to bring glacial success."" After fourteen hours of canoe travel, Muir and his companions arrive at the main glacier, to be greeted ""with a tremendous dash of thunder, raising a fine dust and spray of ice and water to a height of 100 feet."" Later, as they make camp on a ""garden shelf"" Muir closes his essay, saying, ""How hearty the wave-greeting on the rocks below, sent us by the two glaciers! And how glorious a song the sixteen cascades are singing.!""

Publication

San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Oct. 9, 1880

Page/Column

p. 4, col. 1

See also Kimes Entry Number

See also: no. 333, pp. 213-219; no. 341, v. 3, pp. 259-266

Recommended Citation

Muir, John, "Alaska Land. An Eventful Day-Revelling Among the Glacial Monarchs. Fountain Source of Ice-Rivers-Wild Goats-Music of the Cascades. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Cascade Camp, Sum Dum Bay, August 29, 1880." (1880). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes, 1986 (Muir articles 1866-1986). 152.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/152