GILACIUAIL, SIMUIDINES) UN) GaSe INIGVAINID, WIE: 
THe RepcLirF PENINSULA:-—Continued. 
The Bryant glacier —In a valley about three miles east of the 
Fan glacier there lies another tongue of the peninsular ice-cap 
to which the name Bryant glacier has been applied. Like the 
Fan glacier it is but a short lobe protruding from the ice mantle 
of Redcliff peninsula on its southerly side. It descends an open 
valley less than a mile in width, and by estimate less than three 
miles long. Its course is direct and its slope somewhat greater 
than that of the Fan glacier, as will be seen from the photo- 
graphic illustrations, Figs. 31 and 32. 
The most striking characteristic of this glacier is the verti- 
cality of its face. In this particular it introduces us to the pre- 
vailing northern type. Attention has heretofore been called to 
the curved profile of the terminal slope of the glaciers of Disco 
Island, and of southern latitudes generally. The Igloodahomyne 
glacier which we first visited in the northern latitudes does not 
very widely depart from these. The Fan glaciet approaches 
verticality in its lower face, but its brow is so much curved and 
the cones and snow embankments along its face covered so much 
of the vertical part of its front that it falls short of a typical 
expression of the northern habit. In the Bryant glacier, how- 
ever, verticality of face reaches a full and characteristic expres- 
sion. Not only is the face vertical but it is disposed to over- 
hang so that from time to time the upper portion breaks away 
and falls to the base. This disposition to overhang is doubtless 
to be attributed partly to the more rapid movement of the upper 
layers of ice and partly to the more rapid melting of the dis- 
colored ice below, the two agencies acting jointly. The vertical- 
ity is not only a characteristic of the end of the glacier but of 
the sides. This seems less strange, however, for here we might 
find a plausible explanation in the undermining of the streams 
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