COLLEGE FIORD 



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FIG. 42. OUTLINES OF COLUMBIA BAY. 

 A, enlarged from Vancouver's map (1794), which does 

 not distinguish the glacier from other parts of the land. 

 B, reduced to same scale from plate xi, showing relations 

 of sea, glacier, and land in 1899. 



(see fig. 42), but the narrowness of the strait represented 

 between the island and that portion of the coast said to 



consist of ice, in- 

 dicates the impres- 

 sion of the explorers 

 that the ice wall 

 stood not very far 

 beyond the island; 

 and this view is 

 supported by the 

 statement already 

 quoted that the 

 island was in the 

 " northeast corner " 

 of the bay. It seems 

 reasonable to infer that the glacier was not much smaller 

 in 1794 than in 1899; and that if the features of the em- 

 bayment prove a recent and important minimum, that 

 minimum occurred in the nineteenth century. 



COLLEGE FIORD 



While our boat party was occupied with Columbia 

 Glacier the main division of the Expedition visited the 

 northwestern arm of the sound, called Port Wells, where 

 important contributions were made to geographic knowl- 

 edge. College Fiord, the right branch of Port Wells, was 

 explored more thoroughly than ever before, and the left 

 branch, Harriman Fiord, was discovered as well as ex- 

 plored. The fiords were mapped by Gannett, and their 

 beautiful and imposing series of glaciers were photographed 

 by half a dozen cameras. After the ship had picked up 

 my party in Columbia Bay, it returned to Harriman Fiord 

 for Gannett and Muir, and I was thus enabled to sail past 

 several of the Port Wells glaciers, but the following de- 

 scription is chiefly at second hand. Many of the best 



