HUGH MILLER INLET 



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broad. The Hugh Miller, descending from the moun- 

 tains at the southwest, spreads into a broad field north- 

 west of it, and has a double discharge, one part coming 

 eastward to the inlet, and the other going northward 

 toward Glacier Bay. The face toward the inlet is about 

 three and a half miles long. The southern third overlooks 

 the water in a low cliff, and the remainder presents a 

 sloping surface black with accumulated rock debris. 

 Though the land-locked inlet gives the floating ice scant 

 opportunity to escape to the open bay, very little was ac- 

 cumulated at the time of our visit, June n, and all the 

 bergs were small. 



FIG. l8. TILL LEFT BY HUGH MILLER GLACIER BETWEEN l88o AND 1890. 



Photographed in 1899. The till is thin, but contains remnants of ice, and was englacial in 

 part. The single bush visible, almost the only vegetation on the new ground, is a willow. 



The dates of exploration and survey are the same as for 

 Reid Inlet and the general history of change is strictly 

 parallel. Muir observed but a single glacier, to which he 

 gave the name Hugh Miller. Reid found two, and added 

 the name Charpentier. With the aid of Reid's map I was 

 able to indicate somewhat definitely the extent of the sub- 

 sequent recession, and Muir, in revisiting the locality with 



