G. F. Wright—The Muir Glacier. 3 
the main axis of the bay to the northwest. The eastern, or 
Muir, inlet is a little over three miles wide at its mouth, and 
extends to the north about the same distance, narrowing, at the 
upper end, to a little over one mile, where it is interrupted by 
the front of the Muir glacier. The real opening between the 
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mountains, however, is here a little over two miles wide, the 
upper part on the eastern side being occupied with glacial de- 
bris covering a triangular space between the water and the 
mountain about one mile wide at the ice-front and coming to a 
point three miles below, beyond which a perpendicular wall of 
rock 1,000 feet high rises directly from the water. The moun- 
