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With January -
Visit to glaciers
head May
30X = 2000 paces across gap
to head - Bar 700
+ 1000 paces to foot of glacier
+ 1100 " to those of nunataks
Bar 1100 ft.
Higher pointy of nunatak 1275 ft
+600 paces from there -
(Highest part of ridge shows
much ledge in place. See
Several loose blocks of quartz-
granite form elsewhere (N 3?)
are on the ridge showing
former covering by the
glaciers Hornblende schist-orthic or-
diabase dikes directed
About N - S crosses middle
of ridge. Another was observed far-
thier east in ridge. Both seem to have
suffered from stress with the gneiss.
Almost the whole crest of the ridge
is formed of the jointed and frac-
tured ledge in place.
Specimens 590-594 gneiss; 595-7 dike
good black augite seen in snow