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While these observations cover but a small part of the 

 island, they are so distributed as to throw considerable 



light on Pleis- 



tocene con- 

 ditions. The 

 glaciation of 

 the eastern, 

 northern and 

 western ex- 

 tremities of 

 the island, and 

 the notable 



FIG. 87. HILL BEHIND KADIAK VILLAGE. 



Showing glacial sculpture and subsequent erosion by a stream. 



height to 



whi ch ice 



sculpture extends at the east and north, indicate a practi- 



cally continuous glacial envelope, from which scattered 



peaks pro- 

 jected as 

 nuna t aks. 

 Afognak and 

 the other im- 

 portant is- 

 lands of the 



group were 

 probably in- 

 cluded in the 

 same envel- 



ope, 



and the 



FIG. 88. HANGING VALLEY NEAR KADIAK VILLAGE. 



The lower ground was shaped by a large glacier moving from left 

 to right. 



ice extended 

 in many di- 

 rections be- 

 yond the po- 

 sition of the 



present coast line. The apparent absence of glaciation 

 from salient features of the northwestern coast indicates 



