EXISTING GLACIERS. 



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Mount St. Elias; but the information brought back by 

 them concerning the glaciers of the region amply repaid 



Fig. 14.— By the courtesy of the National Geographical Society. 



them for their toil and expense, and consoled them for 

 the failure of their immediate object. 



Leaving Yakutat Bay, and following the route indi- 

 cated upon the accompanying map, they travelled on gla- 

 cial ice almost the entire distance to the foot of Mount 

 St. Elias. The numerous glaciers coming down from' the 

 summit of the mountain-ridge become confluent nearer 

 the shore, and spread out over an area of about a thousand 

 square miles. This is fitly named the Malaspina Glacier, 

 after the Spanish explorer who discovered it in 1792. 



It is not necessary to add further particulars concern- 



