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Identifier: alaskaatlinyukon00whit (find matches)
Title: Alaska, Atlin, and the Yukon : White Pass & Yukon Route
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: White Pass & Yukon Route (Firm)
Subjects: White Pass & Yukon Route (Firm)
Publisher: Chicago : Poole Bros.
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
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it Whitehorse Wednesdayor Sunday and enable them to leave on the train Thursdayor Monday morning to connect with the Tutshi at Carcrossfor Atlin, or connect with steamer leaving Skaguay for Van-couver or Seattle on Thursday or Monday evening. To Atlin The steamer Tutshi leaves Carcross, Y. T. every Mondayand Thursday immediately on arrival of train from Skaguay,and arrives at Taku landing that evening, and passengers areimmediately taken by train across a narrow neck of land (betweenTagish and Atlin lakes) to the west shore of Atlin Lake, adistance of two miles, from where the Tarahne will carry thepassengers across Atlin Lake to the town of Atlin, a distance ofsix miles. The trip from Taku Landing consumes about onehour. This affords the tourist a daylight trip through Tagishand Atlin lakes to Atlin. Returning, the boat leaves Atlin at 8.30 p.m. Tuesdays andSaturdays, arriving at Carcross about 7.00 a.m. the following day,in time to connect with the trains for Whitehorse and Skaguay.
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Reflections of a Trip to Llewellyn Glacier By L. C. Read of Atlin, B. C. On August 10. 1918, I made a trip to Llewellyn Glacier andup on the south peak of Mussen Mountain, where I made a pan-oramic view of the ice that may be of scientific value to thosewho are studying the movement of glacial ice and medial moraines. When I first stood on the mountain side, far above the greatexpanse of ice shown in this view which embraces nearly one-half of the whole glacial region, which is some seventy-five byfifty miles in extent at a conservative estimate—I wondered if 1were really living in the twentieth century or in the great ice ageof many thousands of years ago; fancied that a similar scene22 might have been obtained in the valley of the St. Lawrence or theHudson at that time; half expected to see a specimen of the Pilt-down man, with bearskin over his shoulders and club in hand,step out upon the scene with a look of fear and amazement atthe appearance of his, perhaps, hundredth-thousand

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