420 ELIOT BLACKWELDER 
The water discharged issues in several streams, but these combine 
in a recent cut through the encircling morainic ridge and reach the 
fiord as a single river. 
The Moser valley contains two considerable tongues of ice and 
several little cliff-glaciers. At the extreme head of the valley a short 
triangular lobe overflows from the adjacent Beasley Glacier, while a 
somewhat larger glacier occupies the tributary canyon which joins 
the main valley from the eastward. The latter we take to be the 
Moser Glacier." ; 
The triangular lobe from the Beasley Glacier is smooth and white. 
At ifs terminus there is no distinct moraine, nor is there any consider- 
able amount of débris upon the end of the ice itself. A level outwash 
train of coarse gravel trends away from the glacier down the valley. 
The Moser is an excellent example of the small alpine glacier. 
If its snow-fields are included, it is about 24 miles long, the bare icy 
portion being about 14 miles in length. The width of the cirque is 
nearly 14 miles, but the glacier itself has a constant width of slightly 
less than half a mile. It lies in a deep canyon, the walls of which rise 
steeply to heights of 1,500-2,000 feet, and then more gently to summits 
about 2,000 feet higher. The cirque is filled with snow and névé 
which is slightly crevassed. Lower down the transverse crevasses 
become much more numerous and the clear ice makes its appear- 
ance. About a mile from the lower end, the angle of slope becomes 
much gentler, the crevasses less numerous and radial rather than 
transverse in direction, and the surface is comparatively smooth. At 
the time of our visit it was not difficult to cross the lower part of the 
glacier in almost any direction, provided one paid due regard to the 
many, although narrow, cracks. On each side of the lower end of 
the tongue the ice is covered with débris which stands out upon the 
surface in relief, forming two lateral moraines. A medial moraine 
makes its appearance suddenly three-tenths of a mile from the end, 
and is a prominent feature of the nose of the glacier. Its origin is 
not obvious. At no distant time the Moser Glacier has been three- 
« Lieutenant Hugh Rodman, of the U. S. Fish Commission, passing along the 
front of the foreland in 1901, observed that this valley contained a glacier, and, sup- 
posing doubtless that it was a single tongue of ice, he named it the. Moser Glacier. In 
1906 we found two distinct glaciers in this valley, and have applied to the larger of 
them the name proposed by Lieutenant Rodman. 
