6o 
ALASKA GLACIERS 
was probably stationary and wasting. It was heavily 
coated with drift, which lay in irregular hummocks. The 
opposite end was not identified, but may be one of the 
branches of the stagnant portion of Hubbard Glacier, to 
be described on another page. 
Close to the end of Nunatak Glacier were two lateral 
glaciers which may recently have been its tributaries. 
FIG. 31. TIDAL FRONT OF NUNATAK GLACIER. 
Beyond it, a hanging valley, with a small glacier. The heights are hidden by cloud. 
Photographed from the southwest, June 21, 1899. 
That at the north (fig. 31) occupied a trough trending 
nearly east and west and intersecting the Nunatak at an 
acute angle. It terminated several hundred feet above 
the Nunatak, its lower part being buried under a heavy 
moraine. That at the south (fig. 32) probably occupied 
a yet higher valley nearly at right angles to the Nunatak 
trough, but clouds cut off the view of its upper portion. 
It was seen only as a series of ice cascades, pouring from 
ledge to ledge for a thousand feet down the steep wall of 
the trough. 
The main division of Nunatak Glacier was tidal, dis¬ 
charging bergs freely from a cliff nearly a mile long and 
about 200 feet high. At the south the cliff ended against 
