INLAND PASSAGES 
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and 45 a series of similar valleys and glaciers bordering 
College Fiord and Harvard Glacier. In figure 46 two 
hanging valleys are shown, the one empty, the other fur¬ 
nishing a tributary to Barry Glacier; in figure 50 are two 
high valleys with small glaciers overhanging Serpentine 
Glacier; and figure 51 represents Cataract Glacier, issuing 
from a high valley and cascading to Harriman Fiord. All 
these examples, occurring in the preceding portion of this 
report, are incidentally included in views selected to illus¬ 
trate other features. In the following portion are a num¬ 
ber of views chosen wholly or partly with reference to 
hanging valleys; and the remark applies especially to plate 
xvi and to figures 62, 66, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74, 76, 77, 81, 88 
and 93. 
THE DISTRICT OF INLAND PASSAGES 
From Puget Sound, Washington, at the south, to Lynn 
Canal and Glacier Bay, Alaska, at the north, a space of 
900 miles, the coast of North America has a peculiar and 
significant facies. It is divided into a fringe of rugged 
peninsulas by deep, narrow inlets, and guarded from the 
surges of the open ocean by a great number of rocky 
islands and islets. In this respect it resembles the coast 
of Maine and the western coast of the Scandinavian pen¬ 
insula, and, like them, its peculiar characters are associ¬ 
ated with evidences of extensive glaciation. It differs 
from those coasts in the fact that some of its islands are 
of great extent, so as to include or be constituted by 
mountain ranges, and in this respect it is paralleled by a 
single district only, the western coast of the southern ex¬ 
tremity of South America. 
The map of the district, figure 59, though drawn to so 
small a scale as to show only the larger islands and prin¬ 
cipal fiords, serves to illustrate the intricate penetration of 
the land by the sea. It is reduced from the large chart 
(3689) of the U. S. Coast Survey. 
