Homeward Bound. End of the Corwin's Cruise in the Arctic Ocean. Elephant Point-A Fossil Glacier and its Exuberant Vegetation. Shipwrecked Prospectors-An Alaskan Silver Mine and Oonalaska Scenery. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Steamer Corwin, Oonalaska, October 4, 1881.

Authors

John Muir

Files

Kimes Entry Number

133

Original Date

10-31-1881

William and Maymie Kimes Annotation

At Kotzebue Sound while the Corwin was being repaired, Muir explored a remnant glacier at Elephant Point, so named for the fossilized tusks found there. Of their two weeks' stay at Unalaska, Muir writes that it ""has been restful after our long cruise-about fourteen thousand miles altogether .... ""He relates ""an excursion to the top of a well-formed volcanic cone at the mouth of a picturesque glacial fiord ... commanding a magnificent view of the mountains ... a noble picture to add to the thousand others which have enriched our lives this summer in the great Northland.""

Publication

San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Oct. 31

Page/Column

p. 1, col. 1

See also Kimes Entry Number

See also: no. 341, v. 7, pp. 224-[252]; no. 347, pp. 224-[231].

Recommended Citation

Muir, John, "Homeward Bound. End of the Corwin's Cruise in the Arctic Ocean. Elephant Point-A Fossil Glacier and its Exuberant Vegetation. Shipwrecked Prospectors-An Alaskan Silver Mine and Oonalaska Scenery. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Steamer Corwin, Oonalaska, October 4, 1881." (1881). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986). 168.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/168