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The termiuai face is easily climbed by means of the moi-ames, and for some 

 distance up — nearly half a mile — the whole surface of the ice is completely 

 buried ; after that the lines of moraines from glaciers are separate and 

 better defined. 



Mount CToethe. which flanks the glacier on the southern side, is a moun- 

 tain of considerable bulk, but without a distinct peak foi'ming its summit. 

 Small perched glaciers occur on it, particularly on the side of a small valley 

 joining the maiji one about thi-ee-quarters of a mile from the end of the 

 glacier ; but no glacier joins the main stream at the valley- level, except 

 a small one near the head. Although Mount Goethe is high enough to 

 nourish fair-sized glaciers, the high range to the west precipitates the vapour 

 and the wind reaches the other side of the Lyell Valley in a comparatively 

 dry condition. The heavy precipitation causes the north side of the valley, 

 which is also the shady side, to be thickly covered with snow and ice. 

 About half a mile above the terminal face a small hanging glacier comes 

 down from the slope of Mount Kuikel, and a little further on a very fine 

 tributary comes m from behind Mount Kinkel and extends back to a snow 

 saddle evidently leading on to the St. James Glacier, a tributary of the 

 Ramsay. On its western side are some very fine ice-cliiis, and the lower 

 part is crossed by numerous crevasses and is very dirty, while from the 

 upper side a well-defined medial moraine takes its origin. This glacier I 

 have called the Cockayne Glacier, after Dr. L. Cockayne, who has done so 

 much work on our alpine vegetation. 



About a mile further on another fine tributary conies in from the north 

 side, and I have called it the Heim Glacier, after the well-known Swiss 

 glaciologist, in order to be in keeping with the scheme of nomenclature 

 which Haast followed Avith regard to names in the locality. It rises in a 

 large snowfield, apparently fairly level, lying between Malcolm Peak in the 

 west, Blair Peak on the north, and an unnamed peak on the east. The 

 ice issues fi'om the amphitheatre, and joins the main glacier by a very fine 

 fall. From the western side a well-marked moraine stretches down the 

 middle of the Lyell Glacier. Malcolm Peak is a fuie pouited moimtam 

 heavily covered with ice, and with a beautiful hanging glacier dropping 

 ■down from behind a small dome immediately to the south of the main 

 peak. At this point the floor of the valley is very flat, with the ice slightly 

 crevassed, but it then extends on a generally rising slope right to the 

 base of Momit Tyndall, about three-quarters of a mile further on. 

 This is a fine mountain, strongly reminiscent of the shape of the Matter- 

 horn. It culminates in a rocky peak, with a snow-covered saddle on 

 either side. According to Mr. Earle, who recently visited the locality 

 from the Rangitata and made important topographical discoveries, the 

 western saddle leads to the Wanganui River, flowing to the west coast, 

 while the eastern one leads to the Clyde, one of the main head-waters of 

 the Rangitata. The height of these saddles probably exceeds 6,000 ft., as 

 the floor of the valley at the base of Mount Tyndall reaches 5,000 ft. as 

 measured by aneroid. The amphitheatre which forms the head of the 

 Lyell Glacier is very fine, with Mount Tyndall forming its actual head and 

 Mount Goethe and Malcolm Peak its southern and northern flanks. The 

 length of the glacier cannot exceed five miles at the outside, judging the 

 distance roughly, and considering that our return journey from the base 

 of Mount Tyndall to the terminal face was made in an hour and a half. 



This estimate certainly necessitates an alteration in the position of 

 Mount Goethe on the most recent official map, since it is put too far to the 



