REID INLET 
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vey the main trunk of the Grand Pacific had disappeared, 
leaving three of its branches as independent tidal glaciers. 
The name has been retained for the northwestern branch. 
In 1894 the district was resurveyed by the Canadian 
Boundary Commis¬ 
sion, and another 
record was made of 
the progressive 
changes of the gla¬ 
ciers. 
The Grand Pa¬ 
cific in 1892 and 
1894, as in 1879, 
presented two 
fronts to the waters 
of the inlet, the 
fronts being sepa¬ 
rated by a high rock 
island, but in the 
later years a much Showing positions of ice front in different years. 
I^and areas are ruled. 
larger part 01 the 
island was laid bare. In 1899—as nearly as my distant 
views enabled me to determine — the western and greater 
arm of the inlet had eaten back into the glacier so as to 
reach some distance beyond the head of the island and 
approach the mainland at the northeast, thus isolating a 
body of ice lying between the island and the mainland. 
The arrangement of moraines delineated by the Boundary 
Commission showed that in 1894 this body had ceased to 
be replenished by the current of the Grand Pacific, so that 
its complete wasting was a mere question of time. 1 It is 
possible that in 1899 it had become so far reduced as no 
longer to touch the island. 
1 These moraines are beautifully shown in one of the Commission’s photo¬ 
graphs : A. J. Brabazon, No. 45, vol. 14, p. 13. 
