Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Strentzel Family]
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Transcription
00859 [1] Sitka July 15th 1879Dear Friends three The glacial, botanical, & general landscape developments are on the grandest & most telling scale imaginable not only here but all the way up from Puget Sound. With the exception of a few hours sail in two or three places open to the ocean on one side the whole voyage has been in a narrow river-like channel mostly between bold impressive mountains very densely tree clad down to the waters edge cascades pouring down on either side from the snowy summits. It was hard to believe that we were sailing on salt water so perfectly river-like are the narrow winding channels. The average elevation of the snow I estimated at about 2,000 feet above the sea. Small local glaciers were seen nestling back in shadowing amp[illegible]here & here where the peaks rose higher in Avalanche producing clusters If you turn to the charts I sent you you may form some conception of the narrowness & extreme picturesqueness of the strange waterway eroded by the northern ice through these mtn ranges – Straits, channels reaches narrow islands capes pro[illegible] inlets fords innumerable in most surpassing variety, & compositions of striking impressiveness Our way layup the Strait of Georgia,
Location
Sitka, [Alaska]
Date Original
1879 Jul 15
Source
Original letter dimensions: 27 x 21 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir03_1110-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 1110
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
Owning Institution
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Page Number
Page 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
