GREWINGK GLACIER 
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tions. In the accompanying illustration, representing 
the edge of the forest nearest to Harriman Glacier, 
the rareness 
of branches 
on the side 
toward the 
water sug¬ 
gests that 
winter fogs 
driven land¬ 
ward over¬ 
whelm the 
boughs with ' " ^ 
loads of ice. FIG. 52. HEMLOCKS bordering harriman fiord. 
GREWINGK GLACIER 
West of Prince William Sound we saw glaciers in 
abundance — on Kenai and Alaska peninsulas and on 
Unimak and Unalaska islands — but only one was visited 
or approached so closely as to permit the making of ob¬ 
servations worthy of record. 
The Grewingk Glacier is one of a series descending the 
northwest slope of the mountainous Kenai Peninsula. It 
was mapped by Dali in 1880, and revisited in 1895, when 
he made accurate note of the position of the ice front with 
reference to an object on the southern wall of the valley. 
In 1899 he accompanied me to the edge of the glacier for 
the purpose of pointing out this object, and I made a few 
photographs and other observations to aid in the recog¬ 
nition of future changes. 
The glacier descends with moderate grade from a high 
neve, and maintains in its lower part a width of one and 
one-third miles. Its front is three miles from the sea, the 
interval being occupied by a gravel plain. For half the 
