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are but 14 tributary cirques, as compared with 40 to the Nabesna 

 Glacier, and the total area of ice is about 135 square miles. Its 

 length, from the terminus to the Chisana-Rohn divide, is 30 miles. 



Fig. 4. — The summit of the Chisana-Rohn divide. Photograph by Rohn, 1899. 



A fine view of the glacier can be obtained from Euchre Mountain, 

 at its lower end. The glacier, which for about twelve miles above 

 Euchre Mountain consists of a single lobe, swings in a broad curve 

 from a north to an eastern direction. Its surface, so far. as could be 



Fig. 5. — Lower end of the Chisana Glacier. Photograph by Rohn, 1899. 



seen, was free from sharp breaks in gradient and from prominent 

 crevasses (Fig. 5). 



Moraines. — ^A prominent medial moraine belt, lying somewhat 

 west of the center of the glacier, appears on the surface far above 

 the great bend of the ice. At the bend it has a curious zig-zag shape, 



