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" ... and weather-stains as if dug from the mountain that very day. When I had scrambled to the top of the moraine, I saw what seemed to be a huge snow-bank, four or five hundred yards in length, by half a mile in width. Imbedded in its stained and furrowed... "
The American Journal of Science and Arts - Page 67
1873
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The American Journal of Science and Arts

1873 - 562 pages
...day. When I had scrambled to the top of the moraine, I saw what seemed to be a huge snow-bank, four or five hundred yards in length, by half a mile in...the bottom of the bank, I shouted "A living glacier T* These bent dirt-lines show that the ice is following in its different parts with unequal velocity,...
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The Writings of John Muir: The life and letters of John Muir

John Muir - 1923 - 462 pages
...very day. When I had scrambled to the top of the moraine I saw what seemed to be a huge snowbank four or five hundred yards in length by half a mile in width. Embedded in its stained and furrowed surface were stones and dirt like that of which the moraine was...
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The Life and Letters of John Muir, Volume 1

William Frederic Badè - 1924 - 422 pages
...very day. When I had scrambled to the top of the moraine I saw what seemed to be a huge snowbank four or five hundred yards in length by half a mile in width. Embedded in its stained and furrowed surface were stones and dirt like that of which the moraine was...
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History of the Sierra Nevada

Francis Peloubet Farquhar - 1965 - 284 pages
...moraine. When I had scrambled to the top of the moraine, I saw what seemed to be a huge snow-bank, four or five hundred yards in length, by half a mile in...stained and furrowed surface were stones and dirt like those of which the moraine was built. Dirt-stained lines curved across the snowbank from side to side,...
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John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

John Muir, Terry Gifford - 1996 - 940 pages
...very day. When I had scrambled to the top of the moraine I saw what seemed to be a huge snowbank four or five hundred yards in length by half a mile in width. Embedded in its stained and furrowed surface were stones and dirt like that of which the moraine was...
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Glaciers of California: Modern Glaciers, Ice Age Glaciers, the Origin of ...

Bill Guyton - 1998 - 228 pages
...of the moraine, 1 saw what seemed to be a huge snow-bank, four or five hundred yards in length, by a half a mile in width. Imbedded in its stained and...bottom of the bank, I shouted "A living glacier!" (Muir,1873,p.69) Muir called this the "Black Mountain Glacier." His Black Mountain is today named Merced...
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John Burroughs and the Place of Nature

James Perrin Warren - 2010 - 280 pages
...and more scientific in tone than the early sketch, which dramatizes the discovery rather humorously: "Dirt-stained lines curved across the snow-bank from...bottom of the bank, I shouted, 'A living glacier!'" (Overland Monthly 9:547). By 1875, Muir had made a long, arduous, and painstaking study of the Sierra...
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