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NORTHUMBERLAND GLACIER. 
ones, as yet lean and seemingly unskilled in hospitable 
courtesies, barked at us as we walked about. 
I was greatly interested by a glacier that occupied 
the head of the moraine. It came down abruptly from 
GLACIER OF NORTHUMBERLAND ISLAND. 
the central plateau of the island, with an angle of 
descent of more than seventy degrees. I have never 
seen one that illustrated more beautifully the viscous 
or semi-solid movement of these masses. Like a well- 
known glacier of the Alps, it had two planes of descent; 
the upper nearly precipitous for about four hundred 
