New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-18

with Il eestS ard could scarcely feel It. The frost
Ssry covered the Glacier Bay in It's innost re-
cesscs. Wild fowl startled at our approach,
woot The kcip goose with two-thrds her feathers
black as crow. started frequently from rock always
steamer ducks started out also in couples, making the
water fly by the rapid motion OF their wings, TINS
Of birds in these antarctic regions evade the difficulty OF
ww9ws and gales by using tbe wing " water instead
the stesmbo'. .acs called by earlier yoyagers rasS-
horses, sad said to attain speed Of IA or miles,
EXAMINING A GLACIER,
We entered Glacier Bay 40 ths sun was rising The
work was. usual assigned beforehand. Que of the
officers took Measurements of the motion OF the lower
end of the glacier From tb appears that the Ice was
moving downward eight or nine inches In "a hours at
this season. which would be about double that OF the
glacier OF tho Aar at its extremity Count Pourtales
glacier takes its rise in vast fields of hardened snow.
$500 feet in hight, about four miles back
from the Straits AS it descends It divides into three
fu lake which emptes by cascade near foot Of the
central glacier. The most eastern division comes e
division then makes two three punges over steep
places where 1t L. spit into spiendi9 a OF nearly milo
In length This wall is divided INTO h kgnaI
P %oTnne and mens away every
terminal morane Ia bank OF coarse ana me grave,
and huge pebbles and stones stretching along lne Iro
of the terminal WALL the whole mile In length or 80
feet IN hight and $50 feet in breadth From the ter
about half mile the descent IT, perhaps, 100 feet the
ground is covered with forest OF tangiea %
glacier which unite 70 form two large streams before
A PICTURE OF THE GLACIER.
Tho Professor himself, assisted by the captain went
around the bay in the steam launch and assembled the
lower nights examining the marks which the glacier
had made In the days Of It's greater extension Inc
amateur photographers pitched their tent on the ter
mina moraine and attempted TO get photographs OF inc
qualification: the alternate lines OF blue anu whe,
although showing spenddly the ground glass refused
sow well ON the negative the blue pDoCogfaPninE Us
white as the white. Incidentally, attempting to show
the sTacaop the peculiar forms of the moraines ana
the polishing and growing or the rOcKs they oDla!neu
some picturesque views but they aimed only AT getting
copes of scientific value No photograph, however, even
by the most sf hands, and taken from the best posi-
SIacer As approached it through tho woods,
the second day. mstook IL for tne blue SKY aRpeag
throu gh trees In parts 1t seems simply Ike
crusted field go nearer. and you will mud 1t Is
ico pebbles OF ice, packed Into sod mass LIS b two
principal brooks emerNe from splendid caves afenng
over tnem and glowing within with deep Duo Iign'.
II ia split at termination by great assures, running 1ar
mp into the mass into tongues varying rom one OF tWo
feet 10 80 or 40 feet III thickness, ana OF an anu
tude so great that did not TO venture lar up INTO
the sares between them fragment Of ice falling
above should crush suppose the mass OF ICE hle
parts two or three hundred feet thick possibly much
more. 1t great delight TO us TO see TINS huge mn
ease with which ground the veins Of hard jasper
pOrphyry down to the same surface with softer s
portion Of it shvered by PASSING over sleeper place
into thousand OF the most fantastic pinnaces, naue
and now lighted for me By the coudess morning sun:
The valley around the bay is gTandly Oean,liu ana
as we enjoyed, it would pay for them TO cut pain
through the halfme of forest and advertise that pas
sengers would allowed 10 stop ard see tho glacier
MUSCLES GATHERED FROM GLACIER STREAMS.
At o'clock all gathered and started on our return
to tho ship leaving the bay at O'Clock and reaching
Dlo al his IA a
and there are two others between this and Glacier Bay
We were tired enough 10 enjoy dinner and inclined
10 turn in early bed with the consciousness that We
enough OF real and about the glacier TO be en-
titled to give it name and We propose 10 call IL after
our vessel, the Hasser Glacier.
This morning the day opened with rain snow, and
wnd that thought IT prudent not to venture out
OF this snug harbor have sad that theIe glacier
above the its waters come first into lake. then
into sng9ar clear cascade ana so 10 1e eOs Nat NE
surface water in the cove was fresh ana al thee Ieet
deep was as sa o a. INC %s the deeper water was
So We therefore filled our tanks With hsd tho
and we have eaten them in every way-raw, roasted,
soup, chowder, curry, &cand in every way md them
delicious They the principal food OF the Fuegans,
and without them not how the Fuegians could live
In writing from Sandy Point spoke fay0raby OF the
agricultural capabilities OF the land, and spoke also or
tine possibility Of recaiming the Patagonidn deserts.
But OF the Straits from Port Famine should say 1t is
impossible for civilized man TO settle here
CuURRUCA AND THE PASSAGE FROM IT.
sHoLL BAY, entrance Of Smyth's Channel, March H.
We left Playa Parda Cove yesterday morning ut carly
day, with pleasant cir. and rapidly improving skies
have spoken Of the multitude OF glaciers here, aud
noticed notable instance Of IL in looking back toward
Playa Parda six glaciers in sight at without
turning the head; and many more could be found on
the other quarters Of the panorama The scenery CON
tnued wild beautiful all the morning. and soon after
entered the port OF Churuca on the e OF Desc
ation the most beautiful harbor we have seen.
The leland Of DesoadOn is not barren than the
OF the country in the neighborhood 1t Is al barren,
from Port Famine to Cape Pillar the forests beng only
IN
the hiOps, consisting apparently only of wet moss:
The country sacred to beauty and incapable OF
mnisterng TO lower than the spiritual needs Of
the soul
southern side Of the straits observe that there Is
perceptble difference IN the polishing ana rounding OF
smoother Indicating that the abrading force from
the south The difference 10 not great and striking but
1t Is distinctly and Enthusiastically perceptibe. Finding
no scientific opportunity Offering IN the aspect OF
the port of Churru did not drop the anchor but
turned round and came out bringing only two three
photographs OF the scenery, and stood Immediately
for 5ho Bay that we might take advantage of still,
place when there is westerly breeze. We cast anchor
here Just at shutdown The passage from Churrnca was
had the Pacific and the entrance to 5mytn channel Yet
slime bank Oh dazzling snow We thus seemed to be
IN lake surrounded by picturesque mountains ON every
side.
In the north, Mt Burney, 80 miles distant, lifted
great truneated Of snow to the northwest, SINH
lar but much distant mountain showed itself. In
the SOUTH the Isle of Desoaon Just west Of Chur
ruca Bay, a vast glacier and snow-feld, there were
large and striking objects In the grand panorama OF
mountains round seeming quiet lake. But
wonderful of all the mass OF and ice to
northeast and we lie at anchor just east OF
on Snow Sound. The whole side Of long chain OF
mountains is white from summit TO base with gtterng
snow and rifted ice. and became rosy In the early
twilight puzzled TO account for its deposit there.
Usually, We can why tho snow accumuates In
spot rather than In another IL falls the lee side
OF obstacles 10 the prevailing drifting winds. But here
this immense field Is side exposed TO the Pre-
rn na md "a min
suppose that in such proximity to the ocean the
Is very abundant and moist that 1t catches and
lnAon fho