LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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PLATE I. Mt. Victoria and Lake Louise ..... Frontispiece i 



PLATE II. General view of Canadian Rockies from Mt. Balfour .... 6 

 PLATE III. Map of Victoria Glacier . . . . . . . . .19 



PLATE IV. i. General view of Victoria Glacier, looking southward. 2. Lefroy tribu- 

 tary and Victoria Glacier . . . . . . . . . . .20 



PLATE V. i. Debris-covered nose of Victoria Glacier. 2. Neve' field of Victoria 



Glacier ............. 21 



PLATE VI. !. Path of avalanche along Victoria ne"ve". 2. Hanging glacier upon Mt. 



Victoria . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 



PLATE VII. i. Hanging glacier upon Mt. Lefroy. 2. Double neVe 1 field of Mitre 



Glacier .............. 23 



PLATE VIII. i. Parasitic Lefroy Glacier being carried by Mitre Glacier. 2. Western 

 face of Mt. Aberdeen. 3. Surface drainage stream upon Victoria Glacier. 4. Ob- 

 lique front of Victoria Glacier .......... 24 



PLATE IX. i. First stage in formation of a moulin, Lefroy Glacier. 2. Marginal 

 lakelet on west side of Victoria Glacier. 3. Inner end of abandoned drainage 

 tunnel, Victoria Glacier. 4. Mouth of abandoned drainage tunnel, looking outward; 

 Victoria Glacier . . . . . . . . . . . .27 



PLATE X. i. Drainage from Victoria Glacier after a day of much melting. 2. Refer- 

 ence boulder A, Victoria Glacier. 3. Stratified ice front, Victoria Glacier. 4. Front 

 of Victoria Glacier, showing irregular stratification and shearing . . . .28 



PLATE XI. Time of contact between two dirt zones, Lefroy Glacier. 2. Dirt zones 



upon Lefroy Glacier ........... 39 



PLATE XII. i. Glacier capillaries, Yo ho Glacier. 2. Glacier capillaries, Illecillewaet 

 Glacier. 3. Stratification on wall of ice tunnel, Victoria Glacier. 4. Blue bands 

 in Lefroy Glacier ............ 41 



PLATE XIII. i. Blue bands near nose of Illecillewaet Glacier. 2. Contorted blue 

 bands, Yoho Glacier. 3. Ice dyke filled with horizontal ice prisms. 4. Crevasse 

 in Victoria Glacier ..... .42 



PLATE XIV. i. Stony till, left lateral moraine, Victoria Glacier. 2. Sharply crested 



left lateral moraine, Victoria Glacier . . .' . . 47 



PLATE XV. i. Ground moraine, Lefroy Glacier. 2. Right lateral and medial mo- 

 raines of Victoria Glacier .......... 48 



PLATE XVI. i. Formation of Forbes's dirt bands, Deville Glacier. 2. Forbes 's dirt 



bands, Victoria Glacier ........... 50 



PLATE XVII. i. Forbes's dirt bands, Asulkan Glacier. 2. Dust wells, Victoria 

 Glacier. 3. Small dirt cone, Victoria Glacier. 4. Same cone, dirt veneering 

 removed ............. 53 



