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1 65 m. La Perouse Glacier — If the weather is 



254 kn. favourable the vessel will pass within a mile of 

 the terminus of La Perouse glacier which is 

 tidal. This small piedmont glacier was advanc- 

 ing and destroying the adjacent forest in 1895, 

 but had retreated and was inactive in 1899. It 

 advanced about }i mile (-4 km.) between 

 September 4th, 1909 and June 10th, 1910. 

 [48]. The adjacent ice masses include several 

 piedmont glaciers and several ice tongues 

 whose termini are mantled by ablation moraine 

 and forest. 



185 m. Lituya Bay — Twenty miles (32 km.) to the 



296 k.m northwest of La Perouse glacier is Lituya bay, 



a steep-walled fiord. Fifteen miles (24 km.) 



along the coast from Lituya bay is the piedmont 



Grand Plateau glacier. Thence northwestward 



200 m. Grand Plateau Glacier — to Yakutat bay the 



320 km. mountains are separated from the sea by a 



coastal plain, Yakutat foreland, which is 70 



miles (112 km.) long, 5 to 17 miles (8 to 27 km.) 



wide, and is made up of terminal moraines 



and the outwash deposits of former and present 



day glaciers. 



270 m. Yakutat Bay — Rounding Ocean cape, the 



432 km. extreme northwestern point of the Yakutat 

 foreland, the steamer arrives in Yakutat bay, 

 and about 5 miles (8 km.) past the point on the 

 south side of the bay is Yakutat village, where 

 there is a tribe of Thlinkit aborigines. 



275 m. Yakutat village.— 



440 km. 



