DAVIDSON GLACIER 
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ren zone in 1894 ranged from one-fourth mile (east side) 
to nearly one-half mile (north side). There were many 
lakelets in the barren zone (1894) and a few in the forest, 
FIG. 5. MAP OF LOWER PART OF DAVIDSON GLACIER. 
Based on Coast Survey chart 8303 and Boundary Commission photographs made in 1894. 
The contour interval on land is 500 feet; under water, 250 feet. Barren lowlands dotted; for¬ 
est indicated by stars. 
and these are probably indicative of the melting of ice 
buried under the gravel. It seems safe to infer (i) that 
for centuries (age of the mature forest) the glacier has 
not exceeded its present extent by more than three- 
eighths of a mile, and (2) that the period since it last 
FIG. 6. LONGITUDINAL SECTION OF DAVIDSON GLACIER AND CROSS SECTION 
OF CHILKAT INLET. 
g, glacier, m, moraine-delta, w, water of inlet, p, profile of mountain range near glacier. 
