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southwest corner of the glacier. (See A, fig. 2.) Below 
this corner, and extending for about a mile and a half, there is 
a gravel deposit, similar to that on the eastern side, except that 
it is not marked by transverse ridges, but is level- -topped, ris- 
ing gradually from about 100 feet at its southern termination 
to a little over 300 feet where it extends north and west of the 
ice-front. (See fig. 2.) The sub-glacial stream entering the 
inlet just below the southwest corner of the ice emerges from 
the ice about a mile farther up, on the north side of the project- 
ing shoulder of the western mountain which forms that side of 
* the gateway through which the ice enters the inlet. ‘T’his stream 
comes principally from the decaying western branch of the 
elacier before alluded to, and, after winding around the pro- 
jecting shoulder of the mountain (this shoulder is 315 feet 
A. T.), has worn a channel through the gravel deposit lying be- 
tween the lower mile of the glacier and the mountain a short 
distance to the southwest. About half-way down, a small 
brook, coming from between this latter mountain and that 
whose shoulder forms the western part of the gateway just 
north of it, joins the main stream issuing from the glacier on this 
side. Where these streams unite at A they are now uncover- 
ing a forest of cedar trees in perfect preservation, standing 
upright in the soil in which they grew, with the humus still 
about their roots. An abundance of their cones, still preserv- 
ing their shape, lies about their roots; and the texture of the 
wood is still unimpaired. One of these upright trunks measured 
ten feet in circumference about fifteen feet above the roots. 
Some of the smaller upright trees have their branches and 
twigs still intact, preserving the normal conical appearance of 
a recently dead cedar tree. These trees are in various stages 
of exposure. Some of them are uncovered to the roots, some 
are washed wholly out of the soil, while others are still buried 
and standing upright, in horizontal layers of fine sand and 
gravel, some with tops projecting from a depth of twenty or 
thirty feet, others being doubtless entirely covered. The roots 
of these trees are in a compact, stiff clay stratum, blue in color, 
without grit, intersected by numerous rootlets as long as a 
knitting needle, which is, in places, twenty feet thick. There is 
also, occasionally in this substratum of clay a small fragment of 
; wood, as well as some smooth pebbles from an inch ‘to two feet 
in diameter. Che surface of this substratum is at this point 85 
feet above the inlet. The deposit of sand and gravel covering 
the forest rises 115 feet higher and is level- “topped at that 
height, but rising toward the ‘north till it: reaches the shoulder 
of the mountain at an elevation of 300 feet. The trees afe 
essentially like those now growing on the Alaskan mountains. 
Many of them have been violently broken off from five to 
