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glacier now terminates about one mile north of Skolai Creek. Its 

 surface is remarkably smooth and slopes down evenly to a thin 

 edge in front (Fig. 13). It was found to be easier to take a pack 

 train across this low ice-tongue than to ford the torrential stream 

 below. 



From the south, a number of glaciers drain into this valley. About 

 three miles below Russell Glacier a moraine-covered ice-lobe pushes 

 down to the valley and dams the stream so that a considerable lake is 



Fig. 14. — An advancing glacier in Skolai Creek Valley, opposite Frederika Glacier. 



formed. Opposite the mouth of Frederika Creek, a beautiful cascade 

 glacier tumbles out from between castellated peaks and pushes north- 

 ward to Skolai Creek (Fig. 14). It is evidently an advancing glacier 

 now, and was the only one seen during the season which seemed to be 

 advancing. The writer is unable to account for the singular change 

 in conditions which has caused Frederika Glacier, which 17 years 

 ago was advancing, to retreat, and at the same time has brought 

 about the advance of a glacier just to the south, which in 1891 was 

 retreating. 



