EXPLANATION OF PLATE XVII 
Upper Figure. — Lowlands near Wrangell 
Standing south of the main town the observer looks southwestward 
across the harbor. The narrow foreland on which the town stands, 
and the peninsula beyond the harbor, are composed of metamorphic 
rocks, and are probably remnants of a dissected and greatly worn pene¬ 
plain. The rounded crests of the mountains beyond suggest that they 
were overridden by the Pleistocene ice-sheet. See page 132. 
From a photograph made by E. S. Curtis, June 5, 1899. Negative 
no. 195. 
Lower Figure. — Foreland and Islands near Sitka 
The view looks south and southwest from the hillside back of Sitka. 
The islands of the harbor, and the foreland beyond, Cape Baranof, are 
believed to be parts of a peneplain subsequently worn by a glacier. 
See page 131, and compare figure 65, which gives a bird’s-eye view 
of the same features. 
From a photograph made by E. S. Curtis, June 16, 1899. Nega¬ 
tive no. 236. 
