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description of this region by Vancouver does not give any 
reference to this fiord. It is therefore probable that it was 
entirely filled with ice a hundred years ago, which would indicate 
a retreat of Le Conte glacier of six miles in a century.* 
Harry FIELDING REID. 
GEOLOGICAL LABORATORY, 
JoHNs Hopkins UNIVERSITY, 
March 22, I900. 
* Notes on Glaciers of Southeastern Alaska and Adjoining Territory, by OrTo J. 
Kotz: Geog. Jour., 1899, Vol. XIV, pp. 523-534. 
