LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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Plate I. — Mt. Victoria and Lake Louise ..... Frontispiece i 



Plate IL — General view of Canadian Rockies from Mt. Balfour .... 6 



Plate IIL — Map of Victoria Glacier . . . . . . . . . ig 



Plate IV. — i. General view of Victoria Glacier, looking southward. 2. Lefroy xnbu- 



tary and Victoria Glacier . . . . . . . . . . .20 



Plate V.— i. Debris-covered nose of Victoria Glacier. 2. Neve f.eld of Victoria 



Glacier . . . . . . . . . ' . . . .21 



Plate VL — i. Path of avalanche along Victoria neve. 2. Hanging glacier upon Mt. 



Victoria . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 



Plate VIL — i. Hanging glacier upon Mt. Letroy. 2. Double nev^ field of Mitre 



Glacier . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 



Plate VIIL — i. Parasitic Lefroy Glacier being carried by Mitre Glacier. 2. Western 

 face of Mt. Aberdeen. 3. Surface drainage stream upon Victoria Glacier. 4. Ob- 

 lique front of Victoria Glacier . . . . . ... . . .24 



Plate IX. — i. First' stage in formation of a moulin, Lefroy Glacier. 2. Marginal 

 lakelet on west side of Victoria Glacier. 3. Inner end of abandoned drainage 

 tunnel, Victoria Glacier. 4. Mouth of abandoned drainage tunnel, looking outward ; 

 Victoria Glacier ............ 27 



Plate X. — i. Drainage from Victoria Glacier after a day of much melting. 2. Refer- 

 ence boulder A. Victoria Glacier. 3. Stratified ice front, Victoria Glacier. 4. Front 

 of Victoria Glacier, showing irregular stratification and shearing . . .28 



Plate XI. — Time of contact between two dirt zones, Lefroy Glacier. 2. Dirt zones 



upon Lefroy Glacier . . . . . . . . . . -39 



Plate XII. — i. Glacier capillaries, Yoho Glacier. 2. Glacier capillaries, Illecillewaet 

 Glacier. 3. Stratification on wall of ice tunnel, Victoria Glacier. 4. Blue bands 

 in Lefroy Glacier . . . . ■ . • ■ • • ■ • -41 



Plate XIII. — i. Blue bands near nose of Illecillewaet Glacier. 2. Contorted blue 

 bands, Yoho Glacier. 3. Ice dyke filled with horizontal ice prisms. 4. Crevasse 

 in Victoria Glacier ............ 42 



Plate XIV. — i. Stony till, left lateral moraine, Victoria Glacier. 2. Sharply crested 



left lateral moraine, Victoria Glacier . . . . . .47 



Plate XV. — i. Ground moraine, Lefroy Glacier. 2. Right lateral and medial mo- 

 raines of Victoria Glacier .......... 48 



Plate XVI. — i. Formation of Forbes's dirt bands, Deville Glacier. 2. F'orbes's dirt 



bands, Victoria Glacier ........... 50 



Plate XVII. — i. Forbes's dirt bands, Asulkan Glacier. 2. Dust wells, Victoria 

 Glacier. 3. Small dirt cone, Victoria Glacier. 4. Same cone, dirt veneering 

 removed . . . . . . . - . ■ • . -53 



