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H. T. FERRAR. 
Glacier. The hill G 2 occurs at the north-west corner and sends out a shoulder four 
miles to the west. This shoulder is cut off from the granite-hills, G 3 , by a glacier 
which flows northward out of the Snow Valley. The shoulder runs out as a narrow 
promontory along the same line as the north edge of the foothills, and rarely rises 
much more than about 1000 feet. The tributary glacier flowing north causes an 
inconvenient belt of hummocks two miles in width, and it is not till a height of 700 feet 
has been ascended that rock is found in situ. The slope of the hill makes an angle 
of between 30° and 40° to the horizontal, and is covered with loose morainic matter ; 
but at a height of 700 feet a crag of gneiss (729) appears. The rock is dark, 
Fig. 13. — The Gneiss at the east end op the Lower Kukri Hills, near the hill H. 
fine-grained, and very streaky. The foliation dips to the south-west at an angle 
of 60 , a fact of some importance, as we shall see when we consider the 
Kukri Hills. 
The Kukri Hills. 
This name has been given to the hills lying immediately north of the Ferrar 
Glacier, as in plan they have the outline of that implement. They separate the North 
Fork from the East Fork, and are themselves divided, both topographically and 
geologically, just at that point where the Ferrar Glacier floats off into its deep 
fiord-like channel. The western and higher part includes all hills denoted by the 
letter D on the map ; while the eastern and lower part is defined by the hills m and 
II, at its western and eastern extremities, respectively. 
