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twenty miles from the sea (see Figure 13). But 

 its terminal moraine is an irregular heap of debris some 

 twenty-five feet high and about one hundred yards in 

 length. So also at the end of Hobbs Glacier (see 

 Figure 8), where the face of the ice is sixty feet 

 high, there occur only two curious terminal "piers" of 

 silt about thirty feet high and one hundred feet long. 

 These had the appearance of '*eskers," but may be 

 the relics of a former continuous terminal moraine, 

 though I think it unlikely. 



The small glaciers occupying the numerous cirque 

 A'alleys to the south of the Ferrar Glacier were also 

 practically free from surface moraine, nor were there 

 any terminal moraines anyw^iere near their present 

 snouts. At the mouths of the cirque valleys, where 

 they joined the main Koettlitz Valley, there were in- 

 definite heaps of morainic material across these cirque 

 valleys. I w^as never quite able to decide if these 

 moraines were terminals due to the former earlier 

 cirque glaciers or were merely portions of the ancient 

 lateral moraine of the mighty Koettlitz Glacier, etc. 

 The occurrences of morainic material iipon the present 

 glaciers (which occasionally were met with in our 

 traverse) will be described in the chapter dealing Avith 

 glaciology. (See Figure 17.) 



Sections across the Taylor Valley. — This region 

 probably represents better than anyw^here else so far 

 investigated in Antarctica the subglacial topography 

 of the continent. It is shown in a somewhat diagram- 

 matic fashion in Figure 15. Starting from New Har- 

 bor at the mouth of the valley, the latter presents the 



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