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and the compartments communicate, so that their ice masses 
coalesce. The most conspicuous case is found in the central 
area where a number of basins, large and small, have united, 
so that their snows now flow together. This compound neve 
field is known as the Van Trump Glacier. 
In former times, especially at the height of the glacial 
epochs, the Van Trump Glacier must have been much thicker 
and far more extensive than now, and many of the small ice 
tongues which, owing to the rapid shrinkage of the last de- 
cades are now threatening to become detached, were then part 
and parcel of the whole. At its lower border the Van Trump 
Glacier sent forth six lobes, each lying in a deep and narrow 
eroove. These were confluent and ultimately formed two good- 
sized glaciers and a minor one that traversed the valleys of 
that charming park country for which the name Van Trump 
Park has recently been suggested. 
Kautz Glacicr. Immediately west of the great wedge that 
bears the Van Trump Glacier lies the ice stream named for 
Gen. A. V. Kautz, the first explorer to attempt the sealing of 
the peak. It has its sources in the summit névés south of the 
new crater. It is a singularly narrow glacier, averaging only 
one-half to one-fourth the width of the Nisqually, or about 
1,000 feet. At the same time it is fully as long as the Nis- 
qually, that is, exactly four miles, according to the new topo- 
graphic surveys. It receives but one tributary of any size, a 
glacier still nameless that originates in a profound cirque under 
Peak Success. At first sight the volume of that glacier appears 
to be equal to that of the main stream, but the medial mo- 
raine which begins at their confluence, by its gradual shifting 
farther and farther west from the central axis of the glacier, 
shows that the tributary ice stream is the lesser of the two. 
The medial moraine, which is almost two miles long, is 
very similar to that of the Nisqually Glacier, and lke that 
moraine gradually gains in width and height toward the lower 
end of the ice stream so that at last it stands out above the 
ice like a strong embankment. The lower third of the glacier 
lies encased in a narrow canyon, the depth of which steadily 
increases downward, until at the glacier end it amounts to 
nearly a thousand feet. Below the glacier end the canyon 
suffers a remarkable constriction. For a distance of a quarter 
of a mile it has a width of only 400 feet. The walls are nearly 
