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lavishly snow-fed, and of course give birth to fewer bergs; 

 while, as we have seen, the decadent second-class gla- 

 ciers, with no ice to spare for bergs, reach their greatest 

 size at the base of the St. Elias Range. 



ICE FRONT OF MUIR GLACIER. 



Of the nine berg-bearing glaciers in Glacier Bay the 

 Muir is the largest, the main trunk below the confluence 

 of the principal tributaries being about twenty-five miles 

 wide, while the area of its basin can hardly be less than 

 a thousand square miles. 



The most active of the three Disenchantment Bay 

 glaciers is the Hubbard, a truly noble glacier. It has 

 two main tributaries pouring majestic floods into the 

 broad, widely crevassed trunk, and it furnishes most 

 of the bergs which fill the upper end of the bay from 

 shore to shore. 



The grandest and most active of the ten Prince Will- 

 iam Sound glaciers visited by the Harriman Expedition, 



so far as I 

 saw them, are 

 the Columbia, 

 Harvard, and 

 Yale, though 

 the Barry, Ser- 

 pentine, Har- 

 riman and Sur- 

 prise — the last 



three discovered by the expedition — are also superb and 

 imposing; while the cascading glaciers in Port Wells 



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SURPRISE GLACIER, HARRIMAN FIORD. 



