REID INLET 



vey the main trunk of the Grand Pacific had disappeared, 

 leaving three of its branches as independent tidal glaciers. 

 The name has been retained for the northwestern branch. 

 In 1894 the district was resurveyed by the Canadian 

 Boundary Commis- 



sion, and another 

 record was made of 

 the progressive 

 changes of the gla- 

 ciers. 



The Grand Pa- 

 cific in 1892 and 

 1894, as in 1879, 

 presented two 

 fronts to the waters 

 of the inlet, the 

 fronts being sepa- 

 rated by a high rock 

 island, but in the 

 later years a much 

 larger part of the 

 island was laid bare. In 1899 as nearly as my distant 

 views enabled me to determine the western and greater 

 arm of the inlet had eaten back into the glacier so as to 

 reach some distance beyond the head of the island and 

 approach the mainland at the northeast, thus isolating a 

 body of ice lying between the island and the mainland. 

 The arrangement of moraines delineated by the Boundary 

 Commission showed that in 1894 this body had ceased to 

 be replenished by the current of the Grand Pacific, so that 

 its complete wasting was a mere question of time. 1 It is 

 possible that in 1899 it had become so far reduced as no 

 longer to touch the island. 



FIG. II. MAP OF HEAD OF REID INLET. 



Showing positions of ice front in different years. 

 I^and areas are ruled. 



1 These moraines are beautifully shown in one of the Commission's photo- 

 graphs : A. J. Brabazon, No. 45, vol. 14, p. 13. 



