When We Arrived At The Mouth Of The Fiord, And Rounded The Massive
Granite Headland That Stands Guard At The Entrance On The North Side,
Another Large Glacier, Now Named The Reid, Was Discovered At The Head
Of One Of The Northern Branches Of The Bay.
Pushing ahead into this
new fiord, we found that it was not only packed with bergs, but that
the spaces between the bergs were crusted with new ice, compelling us
to turn back while we were yet several miles from the discharging
frontal wall.
But though we were not then allowed to set foot on this
magnificent glacier, we obtained a fine view of it, and I made the
Indians cease rowing while I sketched its principal features. Thence,
after steering northeastward a few miles, we discovered still another
large glacier, now named the Carroll. But the fiord into which this
glacier flows was, like the last, utterly inaccessible on account of
ice, and we had to be content with a general view and sketch of it,
gained as we rowed slowly past at a distance of three or four miles.
The mountains back of it and on each side of its inlet are sculptured
in a singularly rich and striking style of architecture, in which
subordinate peaks and gables appear in wonderful profusion, and an
imposing conical mountain with a wide, smooth base stands out in the
main current of the glacier, a mile or two back from the discharging
ice-wall.
We now turned southward down the eastern shore of the bay, and in an
hour or two discovered a glacier of the second class, at the head of
a comparatively short fiord that winter had not yet closed.
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