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five or six miles wide, except at Icy Cape, where it pre- 

 sents magnificent bluffs of pure ice undermined by the 

 waves. The broad outspread Miles Glacier, near the 

 mouth of Copper River; the Yakutat, the Grand Plateau, 

 Crillon, La Perouse, and many others are of the same 



i type though less 

 extensive. La 

 Perouse, like the 

 Malaspina at Icy 

 Cape, presents to 

 the open ocean 

 grand ice bluffs, 

 which are wash- 

 ed and under- 

 mined to some 

 extent at high 

 tide by the waves 

 that occasionally detach berg-like fragments. These frag- 

 ments are mostly small, however, and are speedily broken 

 up and melted. 





BROADSIDE OF MT. ST. ELIAS ; MALASPINA GLACIER 

 IN FOREGROUND. 



LA PEROUSE GLACIER. 



Of complete glaciers of the first class flowing out into 

 deep ocean water and, of course, discharging bergs, I 

 have seen twenty-eight, and there are at least three 

 others, making thirty-one altogether, while several prom- 

 ising fiords in Prince William Sound remain unexplored. 

 At the head of the LeConte Fiord, in latitude s6°5o / , there 



