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FOUR YEARS IN THE WHITE NORTH [May 



Inglefield were identified only with difficulty. On our 

 latest map, "Polar Regions, Baffin Bay to Lincoln Sea,'* 

 issued by the Navy Department on February 21, 1911, 

 there are nine tidewater glaciers from Cape Sabine to 

 Clarence Head. I counted, photographed, and mapped 

 forty-two — one, the American Museum Glacier, being at 

 least twenty miles along its face. 



The whole coast-line of Boger Point is a vast Pied- 

 mont Glacier with some ten or a dozen feeders flowing 

 from the interior of a rugged-looking country crowned 

 with the Thorndike Peaks, which are two thousand feet 

 in height. This glacier I have named in honor of the 

 American Geographical Society. 



From our camp at Boger Point, it was but a few miles 

 across to Clarence Head, lying more in an easterly direc- 

 tion than it is delineated by the latest maps. With my 

 glasses, my men could be plainly seen well beyond Cape 

 Combermere, skinning a bear on the shore. Boger 

 Point is in error in latitude, as is nearly every point 

 on the coast. 



Saunders Island does not exist as an island. There 

 is a nunatak about in that position, which, years ago, 

 before the advance of the glacier, might have been an 

 island. At present it is entirely surrounded by ice. 

 Clarence Head is out of position relatively. Inside of 

 Clarence Head the land is low and covered with large 

 glaciers, receding until lost in the distance toward the 

 northern shores of Jones Sound. Here was a tempting 

 white highway. Prevailing deep snows and lateness of 

 the season precluded an advance south from this point. 



On my return, I discovered that the three dogs which 

 had been left at camp were loose and looking like ani- 

 mated balloons. They had cleaned up our commissary 



