IN HARRIMAN FIORD 



7.3 



SERPENTINE GLACIER. 



gation in this direction. Here we left Gannett and Muir 



to survey and bring to map our new bit of geography. 



Subsequently this inlet was fitly named Harriman Fiord, 



and the glacier 



at the head of it, 



Harriman Gla- 

 cier. 



The various 



ice sheets united 



in one body, in 



no very distant 



past, which filled 



the inlet to the 



mountain's brim 



— a vast ice 



monster. Now 



the body of the monster is gone and his limbs lie upon 



the mountains on either side, while his tail and rump are 



at the head of the main valley. 



On coming out of the inlet and turning almost at right 



angles into Port Wells, the tide which was with us and 



which was running very strong, caught our vessel and for 



a moment held 

 her in its grasp. 

 She hesitated 

 to respond to 

 her helm, and 

 was making di- 

 rect for the face 

 of the great gla- 

 - cier on our port 

 side; but pres- 



BARRY GLACIER, SHOWING ICE CAVES. entlv She Came 



about, as if aware of her danger, and went on her way in 

 less agitated waters. 



