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ALASKA GLACIERS 



to the west and southwest and is continued twelve miles 

 farther. At the apex of the turn a large glacier (the 

 Barry) protrudes from the northern shore, reducing the 

 waterway to a narrow strait. The portion above the 

 strait, having been discovered by the Harriman Expedi- 

 tion, was named Harriman Fiord. The general width of 

 the fiord is from two to three miles. Considered as a 

 mountain trough, it branches near the middle, but the 

 western branch is almost wholly occupied by a gla- 

 cier. Its walls are everywhere high, and it is in fact 

 a secluded pocket among the mountains. All about 

 are glaciers, of which four are of large size and six 

 reach the sea. 



Barry Glacier (fig. 46), at the entrance to the fiord, 

 approaches from the north-northeast. Its low grade indi- 

 cates a distant 

 source, but 

 the source 

 was not seen, 

 as its upper 

 valley was 

 concealed by 

 mist. Unfor- 

 tunately the 

 map data se- 

 cured do not 

 afford an ac- 

 curate deter- 

 mination of 



FIG. 46. DISTANT VIEW OF BARRY GLACIER, 1899. 



The glacier comes from behind the dark hill at the right. The 

 visible tributary descends by two cascades. Doran Strait lies be- 

 tween the glacier front and the sloping point of land at the left. 



the dimensions of its end, but it impressed the beholder 

 as one of the largest ice rivers of Port Wells. Its peculiar 

 relation to the fiord causes it to be swept by the passing 

 tide and prevents the accumulation of icebergs about its 

 front, but the same relation exposes it to exceptionally 

 rapid melting by the sea, and the conflict of ice current 



