ALASKA GLACIERS 



Montague and Hinchinbrook, lie at the south, separating 

 the sound from the open ocean. The inlets of the north- 

 ern coast, some of which we visited, are fiords, abounding in 

 evidence of glacial sculpture, and the lower slopes of the as- 



FIG. 82. PENINSULA NEAR ORCA, PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND. 

 Shows the glacial rounding of mountain crests, fifteen miles from the ocean. 



sociated peninsulas and islands are well rounded. On the 

 east side of the sound the rounding extends to an estimated 

 height of 3,000 feet, in Columbia Bay, at the north, to about 



FIG. 83. HINCHINBROOK ISLAND, FROM THE SEA. 

 Shows & serrate crest line, little, if at all, modified by overriding ice. 



4,000 feet, and to the same or greater height in Port Wells. 

 Seaward the height diminishes and the higher crests of 

 the outer islands are comparatively angular and serrate. 



