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none at all. The ice sheet with which these tongues or sea walls 
are connected and which really makes up the great mass of the 
glacier is usually spoken of under the phrase ice-cap. If the great 
ice-cap is meant the common term is the inland ice. In Alpine 
regions the term glacier includes the entire stream of ice, though 
especially applied to the trunk stream to which the upper portions 
are tributary. 
DISTRIBUTION OF WORK ON GLACIERS. Acceding 
to this convenient use of terms, it may be serviceable to indicate 
at this point the distribution of my studies, as it will be imprac- 
ticable in this synoptical report to describe the glaciers in detail. 
On the Island of Disco three glaciers were examined. They arise 
from a small ice-cap which occupies the plateau of the south- 
western portion of Disco Island. From this they descend into 
Blaese Dael, but do not reach the sea. They have been else- 
where designated the Lower, the Middle and the Upper Blaese 
Dael Glaciers,^ respectively, according to their position in the 
valley. In the Inglefield Gulf region, my examinations em- 
braced fourteen glaciers, the border of the main ice-cap and of the 
ice-cap of Redcliffe Peninsula. Of the fourteen glaciers, the 
Igloodahomyne, the Bowdoin, the Tuktoo, the East Branch, the 
Mirror, the Gable, the Hubbard and the Leidy Glaciers originate 
in the main ice-cap, indeed they are mere short tongues or lobes 
of it. Of these, the Bowdoin, the Hubbard and the Leidy reach 
the s ea; the others do not. The Fan, the Bryant, the South 
Point, the Gnome and the Krakokta Glaciers radiate from the ice- 
cap of Redcliffe Peninsula. None of these reach the sea level. 
The first two flow southward, the next two eastward and the 
last northward, affording opportunities for a study of the meri- 
dional aspects of glaciers of a common source and similar dimen- 
sions, and these I was able to compare with the observations of 
Lieutenant Peary on those which descend on the west side. The 
East glacier, though immediately adjacent to the border of the 
inland ice, appears to have an ice-cap of its own on the summit 
of a small dissevered portion of the plateau. Glacial geologists 
3. Journal of Geology, November-December, 1894, pp. 775 to 788. 
