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their death is not so near at hand. That these are not newly 
born glaciers, now expanding and increasing their range, is 
proved by the observations that were made in their neighbor- 
hood. Below some of these tiny snow-bank glaciers there 
were abundant transported boulders, resting upon bed rock 
which was striated. They had evidently been brought to 
their place by the glacier at some time when it was more exten- 
sive than at present. In all cases the stria? pointed toward 
the present glacier remnants, and showed the intimate connec- 
tion between the direction of the ice movement and local to- 
pography. For instance, in the valley where the Looped gla- 
cier now ends, the strijB, which are very fresh, point towards 
the sides of the valle3^ Near the middle of the valley, and 
in the center, they extend down grade toward the sea on the 
northern side of the peninsula. 
The same evidence of former extension of local ice sheets 
was seen near the margin of the Nugsuak glacier, where the 
rock near the front is striated by fresh grooves, and the rock 
surface is not covered by lichens, even in the smallest degree, 
There is every evidence that the ice here, on the northern side, 
and in the central parts of the Nugsuak peninsula, has veiy 
recently reached further than at present, and that the valleys 
have been tilled by glaciers furnished from several snow fields- 
Several valley tongues have joined to form a single glacier, 
which has moved toward the north. 
This evidence is in perfect harmony with that found along 
the margin of the continental ice sheet near by, as is described 
in another article. This sheet of ice is now retreating, and 
moraines recent!}^ abandoned are seen along its margin. Be- 
fore this the ice of the continental glacier reached out beyond 
the outermost limits of the i>eninsula, involving the w^ioleland 
in general glaciation, with the direction of movement from 
the east. This was succeeded b}" local glaciation, similar to 
that at present noticed in the ice cap of Disco, though less 
universal, partly because of the smaller land area, and partly 
because of the more irregular topography. During this time 
the ice movements w'ere in various directions, and the trans- 
portation of fragments and the striation of rocks was in ac- 
cord with the minor details of topography. The ice then 
moved in northerly, easterly, southerly and westerly direc- 
