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The Mountains of California

CHAPTER II
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The fiord is called by the natives "Hutli," or Thunder Bay, from the noise made by the discharge of the icebergs.

About one degree farther north there are four of these complete glaciers, discharging at the heads of the long arms of Holkam Bay.

At the head of the Tahkoo Inlet, still farther north, there is one; and at the head and around the sides of Glacier Bay, trending in a general northerly direction from Cross Sound in latitude 58 deg.

to 59 deg., there are seven of these complete glaciers pouring bergs into the bay and its branches, and keeping up an eternal thundering.


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