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Title: Alaska ..
Identifier: alaska01harr (find matches)
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899); Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909; Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942; Washington Academy of Sciences (Washington, D. C. )
Subjects: Natural history; Scientific expeditions
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page & Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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PLOVER BAY nz three feet in diameter and nearly a hundred feet high. This is the same species (Tsuga mertensiana Sarg.) which grows on the High Sierra of California near the timber line.
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COLUMBIA GLACIER, PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND. Every feature of Prince William Sound shows that it was once filled by a grand glacier; but, with the excep- tion of its complicated network of fiords, it has long been open to the sea—probably a thousand years or more. On the north shore I found a Sitka spruce 380 years old, and the ruins on the forest floor bear witness to several generations of these trees. And on the shore of the Harriman Fiord, well up toward the head, where the ice must have lingered long after the main central glacier had vanished, I counted 325 annual rings on a hemlock stump only nine inches in diameter. From this glorious sound we sailed to Cook Inlet, from which most of the great glaciers that once loaded its mountains have vanished; thence to flowery, grassy Kadiak and Unalaska, gaining splendid general views of the wonderful chain of volcanoes extending along the

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