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head of some of the glaciers are the result of glacial erosion ; he 

 gives also an interesting account of dome-shaped elevations, 

 much broken with crevasses, which seem to be a peculiarity of 

 these glaciers ; they are apparently due to elevations in the bed 

 of the glacier. Professor Russell describes all the glaciers 

 except those on the western side of the mountain. He finds 

 them all very much covered with debris at their lower ends, and 

 notes that there is a general retreat. At one point he noticed 

 that the surface of the Cowlitz glacier, about two miles from its 

 lower end, has recently been lowered seventy-five to a hundred 

 feet, as indicated by fresh lateral moraines deposited on the 

 mountain. The Carbon glacier has receded about one hundred 

 yards between 1 88 1 and 1896, and the Willis glacier about five 

 hundred feet in the same interval. All the other glaciers show 

 a marked diminution, but the amounts were not determined. 



Professor Russell has kindly sent me the following account 

 of the glaciers in the state of Washington, which he saw in 1898. 

 It will be noticed that their number is far greater than had been 

 supposed. 



Glaciers on the We?iatchee Mountains. — In examining the rec- 

 ords of the old glaciers of the state of Washington it was found 

 that the Wenatchee Mountains formed an independent center of 

 ice dispersion from which flowed several large glaciers. One is 

 not surprised, therefore, to find small glaciers still lingering on 

 the higher portions of this rugged and exceedingly picturesque 

 group of granite peaks. 



On the summit portion of the Wenatchee Mountains about 

 four miles due east of the culminating pinnacle of Mt. Stuart, 

 there is a glacier measuring by estimate one mile from north to 

 south, including both neve and true glacial ice, and of somewhat 

 less width. It lies on the highest portion of the western rim of 

 a magnificent amphitheater excavated in compact granite. A 

 view into this desolate but wonderfully attractive basin, from the 

 narrow crest forming its eastern wall, is the finest and most 

 instructive picture of its kind to be found in the entire Cascade 

 reefion. 



