HUGH MILLER INLET 
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broad. The Hugh Miller, descending from the moun¬ 
tains at the southwest, spreads into a broad field north¬ 
west of it, and has a double discharge, one part coming 
eastward to the inlet, and the other going northward 
toward Glacier Bay. The face toward the inlet is about 
three and a half miles long. The southern third overlooks 
the water in a low cliff, and the remainder presents a 
sloping surface black with accumulated rock debris. 
Though the land-locked inlet gives the floating ice scant 
opportunity to escape to the open bay, very little was ac¬ 
cumulated at the time of our visit, June n, and all the 
bergs were small. 
FIG. 18. TILL LEFT BY HUGH MILLER GLACIER BETWEEN l88o AND 1890. 
Photographed in 1899. The till is thin, but contains remnants of ice, and was englacial in 
part. The single bush visible, almost the only vegetation on the new ground, is a willow. 
The dates of exploration and survey are the same as for 
Reid Inlet and the general history of change is strictly 
parallel. Muir observed but a single glacier, to which he 
gave the name Hugh Miller. Reid found two, and added 
the name Charpentier. With the aid of Reid’s map I was 
able to indicate somewhat definitely the extent of the sub¬ 
sequent recession, and Muir, in revisiting the locality with 
