REID GLACIER 



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inlet. One of Reid's photographs shows that in 1892 

 it had retired within the general line of the mountain 

 front. The Boundary Commission's map places it outside 

 the position of Reid's dotted line; and in 1899 it was a 

 half mile within the limiting capes. A comparison of the 

 Commission's photographs * with my own indicates a re- 

 cession of about 1,500 feet in five years, accompanied by 

 an important modification of the character of the front. 

 The removed portion was part of an ice cascade, and 

 as there was little 

 change in the thick- 

 ness of the glacier, 

 the terminal cliff in 

 1894 was much 

 lower than in 

 1899. 



I found three 

 masses of dead ice, 

 testifying to the 

 former greater ex- 

 tent of the glacier. 

 One of these masses 

 rested on a small 

 promontory just east 

 of the glacier front. 

 A knob of marble is connected with the main mountain by 

 a comparatively low saddle, and on this saddle lay a body 

 of ice apparently several scores of feet in depth but almost 

 wholly concealed by stones and gravel. This was outside 

 the line of flow of Reid Glacier, and could only be a 

 remnant of the mass of the Grand Pacific when that 

 glacier occupied the full width of the inlet. It dated back 

 to a time when the conditions were as observed by Muir 

 in 1879, and its gradual melting had probably been in 



1 Especially A. J. Brabazon's No. 38, vol. 14, p. n. 



FIG. 13 



REID GLACIER; DISTANT VIEW FROM 

 THE NORTHEAST IN 1894. 

 From a photograph by A. J. Brabazon. 



