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a few flowering plants, all the more noticeable and grateful for 

 their persistent blossoming in spite of the hostile elements, but 

 none of these, nor all together, essentially obscure the surface. 

 Portions of the valley well suited to retain drift are almost 

 entirely free from it. Here and there are some small aggrega- 

 tions, and in some of the valleys there are considerable accu- 

 mulations, although in some of these instances it is uncertain 

 what part is due to stream action, what to local disaggregation, 

 and what to glacial transportation. But whatever may be the 

 result of a strictly correct analysis of such mixed deposits, 

 the general fact remains that the glacial drift in the valley is 

 exceedingly scant. That there is some, however, is beyond 

 question, for, besides other evidence, there are here and there 

 gneissic bowlders which are sharply distinguishable from the 

 igneous rocks that form the entire botto m and sides of the val- 

 ley, and these are perched in such situations and have such 

 forms and markings as to show that they are the relics of a 

 glacier that formerly occupied the valley. 



The contours of the bottom and lower slopes of the valley 

 have taken on phases consonant with the scant drift. While in 

 general the outlines are referable to meteoric and aqueous ero- 

 sion, and their general configuration is of the usual degradation 

 type, they are slightly rounded and subdued, after the glacial 

 fashion. A few shallow basins occur, for which no assignable 

 agency other than ice seems available. Nowhere, however, are 

 the spurs, ridges, or other embossments of the valley subdued to 

 a distinct moutonnee type. No glacial striae were observed, 

 except in the immediate vicinity of the present -glaciers. These 

 characteristics prevail throughout the valley up to the imme- 

 diate vicinity of the present glaciers. No terminal moraine was 

 found stretching across the valley at any point below, but at the 

 ends of the present glaciers notable terminal moraines are being 

 formed. The scantiness of the marks of this former glaciation 

 of Blase Dale, compared with the strong markings on the little 

 Godhaven peninsula, affords grounds for the view already 

 expressed that the glaciation of the latter was a part of a more 



