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ALASKA GLACIERS 
Montague and Hinchinbrook, lie at the south, separating 
the sound from the open ocean. The inlets of the north¬ 
ern coast, some of which we visited, are fiords, abounding in 
evidence of glacial sculpture, and the lower slopes of the as- 
FIG. 82 . PENINSULA NEAR ORCA, PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND. 
Shows the glacial rounding of mountain crests, fifteen miles from the ocean. 
sociated peninsulas and islands are well rounded. On the 
east side of the sound the rounding extends to an estimated 
height of 3,000 feet, in Columbia Bay, at the north, to about 
FIG. S3. HINCHINBROOK ISLAND, FROM THE SEA. 
Shows a serrate crest line, little, if at all, modified by overriding ice. 
4,000 feet, and to the same or greater height in Port Wells. 
Seaward the height diminishes and the higher crests of 
the outer islands are comparatively angular and serrate. 
