CHOROCUA BAY. 



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jrest for Agassiz, because the vessel kept 

 long the northern side of the Strait, while 

 le course hitherto had been nearer the south- 

 ern shore. He could thus better compare the 

 iifferences between the two walls of the Strait, 

 ^he fact that the northern wall is more evenly 

 rorn, more rounded than the southern, had a 

 )ecial significance for him, as corresponding 

 ith like facts in Switzerland, and showing 

 lat the ice-sheet had advanced across the 

 Strait with greater force in its ascending than 

 its descending path. The north side being 

 le strike side, the ice would have pushed 

 igainst it with greater force. Such a differ- 

 mce between the two sides of any hollow or 

 lepression in the direct path of the ice is well 

 town in Switzerland. 



Later in the day, a pause was made in 



)horocua Bay, where Captain Mayne's chart 



lakes mention of a glacier descending into 



le water. There is, indeed, a large glacier 



)n its western side, but so inaccessible, that 



ly examination of it would have required 



[days rather than hours. No one, however, re- 



[gretted the afternoon spent here, for the bay 



I was singularly beautiful. On either side, deep 



gorges, bordered by richly-wooded cliffs and 



overhung by ice and snow-fields, were cut into 



