REID GLACIER 
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inlet. One of Reid’s photographs shows that in 1892 
it had retired within the general line of the mountain 
front. The Boundary Commission’s map places it outside 
the position of Reid’s dotted line; and in 1899 it was a 
half mile within the limiting capes. A comparison of the 
Commission’s photographs 1 with my own indicates a re¬ 
cession of about 1,500 feet in five years, accompanied by 
an important modification of the character of the front. 
The removed portion was part of an ice cascade, and 
as there was little 
change in the thick¬ 
ness of the glacier, 
the terminal cliff in 
1894 was much 
lower than in 
1899. 
I found three 
masses of dead ice, 
testifying to the 
former greater ex¬ 
tent of the glacier. 
One of these masses 
rested on a small 
promontory just east 
of the glacier front. 
A knob of marble is connected with the main mountain by 
a comparatively low saddle, and on this saddle lay a body 
of ice apparently several scores of feet in depth but almost 
wholly concealed by stones and gravel. This was outside 
the line of flow of Reid Glacier, and could only be a 
remnant of the mass of the Grand Pacific when that 
glacier occupied the full width of the inlet. It dated back 
to a time when the conditions were as observed by Muir 
in 1879, and its gradual melting had probably been in 
1 Especially A. J. Brabazon’s No. 38, vol. 14, p. 11. 
FIG. 13. REID GLACIER; DISTANT VIEW FROM 
THE NORTHEAST IN 1894. 
From a photograph by A. J. Brabazon. 
