888 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. 
This type of glacier seem to deserve a special name. Since 
both they and their feeding grounds are on the faces of cliffs, 
it is proposed to designate them chff glaciers. It sometimes 
happens that the snow fields which support these tiny glaciers 
Fic. 1. A cliff glacier on the north side of Herbert Island, a northerly depend- 
ence of Murchison Sound. The upper part of the glacier is covered by snow, which 
also borders it and fills the ravine below. The lack of connection with the ice-cap is 
shown by the line of rock out-crop above the glacier, the ice-cap lying some distance 
back. 
coalesce laterally along their upper edges. Cliff glaciers 
were seen at other points, but nowhere else so strikingly devel- 
oped as north of Cape York. Especially good examples are 
seen on the north side of Herbert Island and on the east 
side of McCormick Bay. These glaciers are really one in origin 
with the low lying glaciers already referred to as originating in 
huge drifts of snow banked against the lower slopes of islands 
