most casual observer, and the mountain, as a whole, as seen from 
a distance, shows plainly the effect of glaciation. I have made 
drawings of the profile of the mountain from two photographs, 
the one taken at B. looking towards the peak in a direction parallel 
to the ice movement, and the other taken at A. looking towards 
the summit in a direction at right angles with the ice movement. 
The vertical and the horizontal scales of these diagrams are equal, 
and the diagrams represent the upper 1,400 feet of the mountain, 
that is, the profile of the mountain above the 1,500-foot contour. 
The difference in the outline as seen from the two points of view, 
is very noticeable, more so, perhaps, than is indicated by the 
diagrams. For the eye naturally exaggerates the vertical scale 
of prominent objects: a mountain always seems to subtend a 
greater vertical angle than it really does, and .a slope always looks 
steeper. The profile of the mountain from A., illustrates on a 
large scale the meaning of the words “ stross” and “ lee” as ap¬ 
plied to opposite sides of glaciated ledges. The northwest—the 
stross-slope, and the southeast—the lee-slope, as seen from A. 
are very unlike. The former appears almost perfectly regular 
and smooth, while the latter is more or less jagged and rough. 
From B. the two slopes appear equally smooth, and the mountain 
is quite symmetrical—its outline resembling a slightly truncated 
cone. This shape is in nowise due to the filling up of hollows 
in the mountain side with drift. The profile would not be ap¬ 
preciably altered were all the surface covering removed. 
There is no timber on the northwest ridge below the 2,000 foot 
contour, though it extends on either side much lower, and along 
the backbone of the ridge, as has already been mentioned, there 
are many planed outcrops. Between the 2,000 and 2,700-foot 
contours there is a belt of small timber, which contains, in places, 
large areas of polished and striated outcrops from which the thin 
soil has apparently been blown. Above the 2,700-foot contour, 
that is, for about 250 feet below the summit (on the north and 
west sides of the mountain) there is no timber and no soil. The 
top of the mountain is as clean as this floor, save in some of the 
crevices where sufficient soil has accumulated to partially cover 
the roots of low, scraggy pines. The area of polished rock ex¬ 
posed here is larger than I have ever seen elsewhere. It is over 
