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PLATE XC1V. THE FKONT OF A GLACIER. 



From a photograph by A. B. ARMITAGE (A. 17, ^-plate), Dec. 10, 1903; being a 

 near view of the face of the glacier which appears in Fig. 1, Plate XCIII. 

 (Map B.) 



The ice-face here represented forms the front of one of the valley glaciers 

 flowing eastward to within a mile of the western shore of Discovery Gulf. 



It has a surface deeply scored by thaw streams, which in places reach the ice- 

 cliff edge and form cascades of icicles in falling over. 



The glacier rests upon a bed, some twenty feet in thickness, of fine silt or mud 

 and gravel, which, as the picture shows, is soon worn into tent-shaped ridges when 

 exposed, by the melting of ice-fragments fallen from the face. 



It is typically a disappearing glacier, as can be seen by the wide moraines 

 deposited and left far beyond its present reach. 



