192 ALASKA GLACIERS 



My observations on the coasts of Bering Sea may be 

 summed in the statement that Plover Bay and neighbor- 

 ing Siberian fiords have features indicating local glaciers 

 of considerable magnitude, that evidence of glaciation was 

 seen at no other points, and that certain crags and pin- 

 nacles on St. Matthew and St. Paul islands seemed incon- 

 sistent with the theory of a continental glacier in the 

 Bering Sea region. My interpretations at the north agree 

 substantially with those of Nordenskiold; at the south 

 with those of Russell. 



So far as the Port Clarence region is concerned, what 

 I have said above has become ancient history before reach- 

 ing the press. A delay of four years between observation 

 and publication is fatal to novelty, if one's theme concerns 

 a region developing under the stimulus of the discovery 

 of gold. Near where we landed on the shore of Port 

 Clarence the town of Bering now stands, and all Seward 

 Peninsula has been explored by the prospector. To aid 

 him the U. S. Geological Survey has sent active parties 

 of geologists and topographers; and as the proof sheets 

 of these pages pass through my hands, I am able to 

 examine contour maps of a large part of the peninsula, 

 and study three comprehensive reports of geologic recon- 

 naissance. These reports are by Brooks, Mendenhall and 

 Collier, and tell of explorations and surveys made in the 

 seasons of 1900 and I9OI. 1 



They cover the general question of Pleistocene glacia- 

 tion in a demonstrative and altogether satisfactory way. 

 The Kigluaik Mountains, between Port Clarence and 

 Cape Nome mountains with an extreme height of about 



1 A Reconnaissance of the Cape Nome and adjacent Gold Fields of Seward 

 Peninsula, Alaska, in 1900. By Alfred Hulse Brooks. 1901. See pp. 42-53. 



A Reconnaissance in the Norton Bay Region, Alaska, in 1900. By Walter 

 Curran Mendenhall. 1901. See p. 208. 



A Reconnaissance of the Northwestern Portion of the Seward Peninsula, 

 Alaska. By Arthur J. Collier. In press. See pp. 24-29 and 34-42. 



