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ALASKA GLACIERS 
My observations on the coasts of Bering Sea may be 
summed in the statement that Plover Bay and neighbor¬ 
ing Siberian fiords have features indicating local glaciers 
of considerable magnitude, that evidence of glaciation was 
seen at no other points, and that certain crags and pin¬ 
nacles on St. Matthew and St. Paul islands seemed incon¬ 
sistent with the theory of a continental glacier in the 
Bering Sea region. My interpretations at the north agree 
substantially with those of Nordenskiold; at the south 
with those of Russell. 
So far as the Port Clarence region is concerned, what 
I have said above has become ancient history before reach¬ 
ing the press. A delay of four years between observation 
and publication is fatal to novelty, if one’s theme concerns 
a region developing under the stimulus of the discovery 
of gold. Near where we landed on the shore of Port 
Clarence the town of Bering now stands, and all Seward 
Peninsula has been explored by the prospector. To aid 
him the U. S. Geological Survey has sent active parties 
of geologists and topographers; and as the proof sheets 
of these pages pass through my hands, I am able to 
examine contour maps of a large part of the peninsula, 
and study three comprehensive reports of geologic recon¬ 
naissance. These reports are by Brooks, Mendenhall and 
Collier, and tell of explorations and surveys made in the 
seasons of 1900 and 1901. 1 
They cover the general question of Pleistocene glacia¬ 
tion in a demonstrative and altogether satisfactory way. 
The Kigluaik Mountains, between Port Clarence and 
Cape Nome — mountains with an extreme height of about 
1 A Reconnaissance of the Cape Nome and adjacent Gold Fields of Seward 
Peninsula, Alaska, in 1900. By Alfred Hulse Brooks. 1901. See pp. 42-53. 
A Reconnaissance in the Norton Bay Region, Alaska, in 1900. By Walter 
Curran Mendenhall. 1901. See p. 208. 
A Reconnaissance of the Northwestern Portion of the Seward Peninsula, 
Alaska. By Arthur J. Collier. In press. See pp. 24-29 and 34-42. 
