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folds up the turf. This, of course, showed that quite re- 

 cently the glacier had had a period of advance or aug- 

 mentation and had encroached upon its banks. We stopped 

 an hour in front of it and put a party ashore, but they 

 learned little that could not be divined from the ship. 



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WEST END OF LA PEROUSE GLACIER. 



They found a heavy surf running, and did not get through 

 it on their return without an acquaintance with the Pacific 

 more intimate than agreeable. All day long we were in 

 sight of glaciers, usually two or three at a time, some of 

 them immense, all the offspring of the great Fairweather 

 Range. Now and then the back of one some miles inland 

 would show above a low wooded ridge, a line of white 

 above an expanse of black, like the crest of a river about 

 to overflow its banks. One broad ice slope I recall which, 



LOW FORESTED SHORES ON SOUTH SIDE OF YAKUTAT BAY. 



with its dark straight lines of moraine dividing it into 

 three equal portions, suggested a side-hill farm in winter 

 with the tops of the stone walls showing above the snow. 

 It had a friendly home look to me. 



On the morning of the 19th we were at anchor in front 

 of the Indian village in Yakutat Bay. This bay is liter- 



