ALASKA GLACIERS 



of three miles, and then turns to the right at a sharp angle, 

 and, assuming the character of a narrow fiord, runs back 

 thirty miles toward the south-southeast (fig. 26). It then 



passes from 

 the moun- 

 tains to the 

 foreland, and 

 ends in an oval 

 expansion 

 three miles 

 wide. The 

 shorter and 

 broader reach 

 within the 

 mountains is 

 called Dis- 

 enchantment 

 Bay; the long, 

 narrow arm, 

 Russell Fiord. 

 Russell Fiord 

 has two east- 

 ward branch- 

 es. The north- 

 ern is at the present time about eight miles long, ending 

 at Nunatak Glacier, and it is convenient to call it Nunatak 

 Fiord. The southern, about one mile in length, leads 

 toward Hidden Glacier. 



The foreland southeast of the bay is in general low, but 

 includes hills and ridges of morainic aspect. So far as 

 known, it is wholly constituted of till and gravel, brought 

 by glaciers and associated streams of water when the ice 

 fields of the region were more extensive. Northwest of 

 the bay the foreland is occupied (or constituted) chiefly 

 by a great piedmont glacier, the Malaspina, the ice being 



FIG. 26. MAP OF YAKUTAT BAY AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. 



Based on map of the Canadian Boundary Commission, with local 

 details by I. C. Russell and Henry Gannett. 



