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the glacier would shoot, but it is not. The under sur- 

 face of the ice is probably perpetually congealed and 

 perpetually loosened, and the crystallization is constantly 

 broken and constantly reformed, so that its motion is 

 more a creeping than a sliding. The carving and 

 sculpturing of the rocks is of course done by the pebbles 

 and boulders beneath the ice, and these must slide or roll. 



We followed the bay or inlet to its head and anchored 

 for the night in the large oval that marks its termination. 

 We were about fifteen miles from the Pacific, being 

 separated from it by a low level moraine of the old 

 glaciers. We were now surrounded by low wooded 

 shores from which in the long twilight came the sweet 

 vespers of the little hermit thrush. 



On the 20th another hunting party went out from the 

 ship and with an Indian guide climbed and threaded the 

 snow-covered mountains nearly all day in quest of bears, 

 but came back as empty handed as they set out. The 



CAMP OF HUNTING PARTY ON NORTH SHORE OF YAKUTAT BAY. 



ship in the meantime steamed back ten miles to a side 

 arm of the bay at the head of which was Hidden Gla- 

 cier, so called because it was hidden from view be- 

 hind a shoulder of the mountain. A broad gravel bed 

 with a stream winding through it, which the retreating 

 glacier had uncovered, was alone visible from the ship. 

 While Gannett and Gilbert proceeded to survey and map 



