An Expedition to Mount St. Elias, Alaska

A long-cherished desire to study the geography, geology, and glaciers of the region around Mount St. Elias was finally gratified when, in the summer of 1890, the National Geogra...

[Footnote 2: For more complete bibliographic references than space will allow in this paper, the reader is referred to Dall and Baker's "Partial list of books, pamphlets, papers...

The height and position of Mount St. Elias have been measured several times during the past century with varying results. The measurements made prior to the expedition of 1890 h...

The glaciers of the St. Elias region form two groups. The ice-streams from the mountain are of the type found in Switzerland, and hence termed _Alpine glaciers_. The great plate...

In the preceding narrative, many references have been made to the character of the rocks and to the geological structure of the region explored. It was not practicable during th...

Plate 2--Sketch Map of Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 3--Map of the St. Elias Region, after La Pérouse . . . . . 59 4--Map of the Eastern Shore of Yakutat Bay, afte...

Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 From Seattle to Sitka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 From Sitka to Yakutat Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Bering, 1741 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Cook, 1778 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 La Pérouse, 1786 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....