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Friday June 25th cont.
siderably further to the Northward than indicated by Tebenkoff and the north shore of the Yakutat Bay is considerably nearer the foot of the mountains than there indicated.  For further notes on this point and on a peak of considerable height not before seen, behind the main chain, see notes on Tebenkoff and our own chart of this region.  Mt. Fairweather showed up at sunset or a little before in one with Ocean Cape bearing East.
The second point developed and which seemed at first incredible was the character of the great plateau in front of the St. Elias Alps on the north side of Yakutat.  This appeared to be as follows.  At the shore at Pt. Manby the beach was bordered by trees and a band of trees with high land or a low bluff (to all appearance) behind them extended eastward some miles as indicated by the preceding bearings.  Near the point (northeastward) where the trees ended is a light or slight incurvature of the shore, beyond which it rounds out again forming another apparent point, with apparently an island off it.  This, however from aloft proved to be connected with the main shore. In the
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vicinity of this island-like point trees again border the beach.  Within the beach for an unknown distance ^[[insertion]] back [[/insertion]] in a NW. direction the plateau is one great field of ice covered for the most part with dirt, but in the bight before indicated, there is a space for some miles where the surface is wholly composed of broken pinnacles of ice each crowned with a patch of dirt and standing up like prisms close to one another, decreasing in height from the summit of the plateau gradually in a sort of semicircular sweep toward the beach, near which however the dirt again predominates and forms the terminal moraine of this immense glacier for it is nothing else.  Trains of large boulders were visible in several places, and the general course of the glacier was NW. and S.E.
Between Disenchantment Bay and the foot of St. Elias, seventeen glaciers were counted, none of extraordinary size and the total of whose supply seemed far too little to supply the waste of the plateau glacier, to which those (which do