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interval, the Grand Pacific glacier has retreated 500 to 600 
yards; and the Hugh Miller 300 to 400 yards; the tide-water 
end of the Charpentier has receded nearly a mile and the Alpine 
end is now a mass of disconnected dead ice. 
The records of Muir glacier are increasing. We know 
approximately its extent in 1880 from Professor Muir; and in 
1886 from photographs by Professor Wright; and accurately in 
1890 and 1892 from surveys by the author; pretty well in 1894 
from photographs by La Roche of Seattle, and accurately again 
in 1899 from surveys by Mr. Gannett. With the exception of a 
slight advance between 1890 and 1892 the glacier has been 
pretty steadily receding. At present its extreme point in the 
middle of the inlet is not much behind its position eight or ten 
years ago, but the sides have receded fully half a mile. Morse 
glacier, a tributary on the west, became entirely separated from 
Muir glacier between 1892 and 1894 and continues to get 
shorter. Dirt glacier will probably also be an independent 
glacier before long. 
Mr. Otto J. Klotz, of the Canadian Topographical Survey, 
concludes from a comparison of Vancouver’s description of 
Taylor Bay with its present extent, that the Brady glacier in 
1794 was at least five miles shorter than in 1893, when the 
Canadian survey was made, and that at the earlier date the 
glacier ended in tide-water. At present its end rests on gravels 
and does not quite reach the sea. These gravels must then have 
been laid down in the interval. He also concludes from Van- 
couver’s descriptions and that of Sir George Simpson regarding 
Stephens’ passage in 1841, that all the glaciers south of Fair- 
weather Range have been steadily retreating in the last century. 
This, however, does not preclude temporary advances of indi- 
vidual glaciers, such as the Patterson, which, according to the 
Pacific Coast Pilot of 1891, was advancing and destroying trees 
at that time. The Le Conte glacier is at the head of a fiord 
about six miles long, and has retreated about half a mile between 
1887, when the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey chart 
was made, and moe, the time ofthe) Canadianyisunveyamect 
