INLAND PASSAGES 119 



and 45 a series of similar valleys and glaciers bordering 

 College Fiord and Harvard Glacier. In figure 46 two 

 hanging valleys are shown, the one empty, the other fur- 

 nishing a tributary to Barry Glacier; in figure 50 are two 

 high valleys with small glaciers overhanging Serpentine 

 Glacier; and figure 51 represents Cataract Glacier, issuing 

 from a high valley and cascading to Harriman Fiord. All .. 

 these examples, occurring in the preceding portion of this 

 report, are incidentally included in views selected to illus- 

 trate other features. In the following portion are a num- 

 ber of views chosen wholly or partly with reference to 

 hanging valleys ; and the remark applies especially to plate 

 xvi and to figures 62, 66, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74, 76, 77, 81, 88 

 and 93. 



THE DISTRICT OF INLAND PASSAGES 



From Puget Sound, Washington, at the south, to Lynn 

 Canal and Glacier Bay, Alaska, at the north, a space of 

 900 miles, the coast of North America has a peculiar and 

 significant facies. It is divided into a fringe of rugged 

 peninsulas by deep, narrow inlets, and guarded from the 

 surges of the open ocean by a great number of rocky 

 islands and islets. In this respect it resembles the coast 

 of Maine and the western coast of the Scandinavian pen- 

 insula, and, like them, its peculiar characters are associ- 

 ated with evidences of extensive glaciation. It differs 

 from those coasts in the fact that some of its islands are 

 of great extent, so as to include or be constituted by 

 mountain ranges, and in this respect it is paralleled by a 

 single district only, the western coast of the southern ex- 

 tremity of South America. 



The map of the district, figure 59, though drawn to so 

 small a scale as to show only the larger islands and prin- 

 cipal fiords, serves to illustrate the intricate penetration of 

 the land by the sea. It is reduced from the large chart 

 (3689) of the U. S. Coast Survey. 



