COLLEGE FIORD 
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(see fig. 42), but the narrowness of the strait represented 
between the island and that portion of the coast said to 
consist of ice, in¬ 
dicates the impres¬ 
sion of the explorers 
that the ice wall 
stood not very far 
beyond the island; 
and this view is 
supported by the 
statement already 
quoted that the 
island was in the 
“ northeast corner ” 
of the bay. It seems 
reasonable to infer that the glacier was not much smaller 
in 1794 than in 1899; and that if the features of the em- 
bayment prove a recent and important minimum, that 
minimum occurred in the nineteenth century. 
COLLEGE FIORD 
While our boat party was occupied with Columbia 
Glacier the main division of the Expedition visited the 
northwestern arm of the sound, called Port Wells, where 
important contributions were made to geographic knowl¬ 
edge. College Fiord, the right branch of Port Wells, was 
explored more thoroughly than ever before, and the left 
branch, Harriman Fiord, was discovered as well as ex¬ 
plored. The fiords were mapped by Gannett, and their 
beautiful and imposing series of glaciers were photographed 
by half a dozen cameras. After the ship had picked up 
my party in Columbia Bay, it returned to Harriman Fiord 
for Gannett and Muir, and I was thus enabled to sail past 
several of the Port Wells glaciers, but the following de¬ 
scription is chiefly at second hand. Many of the best 
FIG. 42. OUTLINES OF COLUMBIA BAY. 
A, enlarged from Vancouver's map (1794), which does 
not distinguish the glacier from other parts of the land. 
B, reduced to same scale from plate xi, showing relations 
of sea, glacier, and land in 1899. 
