Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899), Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909, Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942, Washington Academy of Sciences (Washington, D.C.) · New York, Doubleday, Page & Company · leaf 148
46 JOHN BURROUGHS water; the black vegetable mould and decayed moss had afresh undisturbed look. Evidently no force had plowed or rubbed over the surface of this ground. While at the Muir we had some cloud and fog but no storms, and we had one ideal day. That was Sunday the … pecially so to two of us who spent it on the top of Mt. Wright nearly 3,000 feet above the glacier. It was indeed a day with the gods, strange gods, the gods of the foreworld, but they had great power over us. The scene we looked upon was for the most part one of desolation— snow, ice, jagged…
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