Stansbury, C: Klondike -

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Excerpt from Klondike: The Land of Gold

The top, the latter predominates in the lower levels, the former in the higher and capped with barren granite mountains, covered on the top and in the gulches with snow and glaciers, which furnish water for innumerable cascades and waterfalls. These glaciers on the moun tain tops become better marked as the river is ascended. One on the west side of the Dayay may be said to commence opposite the mouth of that stream, if not before, and con tinue along it some ten or twelve miles until the outline could no longer be followed in the fog and mist that nearly always cling to their faces, especially during the warm summer months, when the atmosphere charged with moisture from the warm waters of the near Pacific is driven against them by the sea breezes.

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