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FLOOD GLACIER 

 Flood Glacier is on the west side of the Stikine, approximately 

 fifteen miles below the Little Canon, and about seventy miles from the 

 coast. Its terminal moraine is about two miles back from the river. 

 Our camp here was below the southern end of the glacier, on a knoll 

 by the river frequently used as a camp site and locally known as 

 "the barley cache." We found ourselves here amid conditions very 

 similar to those on the seacoast, in a dense forest of ^ruce and hem- 

 lock, with thickets of alder and devil's-club in the wet places and of 



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Pig. J. Clearing through the forest below Plood Glacier. The woods here 

 are so dense as to be all but impassable. Immediately below the glacier, how- 

 ever, there are several straight, open lanes, extending down nearly to the river 's 

 edge, apparently ploughed through the woods by descending masses of ice or 

 rocks. These lanes are used as avenues of travel by moose and bear, as indi- 

 cated by the tracks. We also found far more small birds in such openings than 

 in the surrounding woods. Photograph taken August 1, 1919. 



Pig. K. Mountain opposite Great Glacier at its southern extremity. This 

 point, some thirty miles from the sea, is in the heart of the Coast Mountains; 

 the peaks and ridges here seen form the very backbone of the range. The 

 higher crests, jagged and unworn, apparently never were glacier-covered. The 

 sheet of ice may be seen today, below the summit of the range, extending for 

 many miles as a series of disconnected hanging glaciers, all at about the same 

 level. (See also fig. I.) According to Indian legend, an ice bridge extended 

 across the Stikine at the point here shown at a not very remote time. Photo- 

 graph taken August 9, 1919. 



