4 6 ALASKA GLACIERS 
of three miles, and then turns to the right at a sharp angle, 
and, assuming the character of a narrow fiord, runs back 
thirty miles toward the south-southeast (fig. 26). It then 
passes from 
the moun¬ 
tains to the 
foreland, and 
ends in an oval 
expansion 
three miles 
wide. The 
shorter and 
broader reach 
within the 
mountains is 
called Dis¬ 
enchantment 
Bay; the long, 
narrow arm, 
Russell Fiord. 
Russell Fiord 
has two east¬ 
ward branch¬ 
es. The north¬ 
ern is at the present time about eight miles long, ending 
at Nunatak Glacier, and it is convenient to call it Nunatak 
Fiord. The southern, about one mile in length, leads 
toward Hidden Glacier. 
The foreland southeast of the bay is in general low, but 
includes hills and ridges of morainic aspect. So far as 
known, it is wholly constituted of till and gravel, brought 
by glaciers and associated streams of water when the ice 
fields of the region were more extensive. Northwest of 
the bay the foreland is occupied (or constituted) chiefly 
by a great piedmont glacier, the Malaspina, the ice being 
