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17.
9x3. Sigdlu and Mene beside Kamatik
17-4 Eqinguah & Sigdlu beside latter's
Kamatik just before he started for Cape York.
16 May. 9x17-5, 4/7s- Lower (western)
end of big (Cluett) glacier from top of
large gneiss erratic about 3/4 mi. distant.
Shows ice vertical ice front flanked by
the incurving ends of the two main
lateral moraines.
17.6 4/6s- Vertical ice front of Cluett glacier
from point on outwash about 200 yards away.
Shows curved and overturned and folded
ice-and-dirt bands at right and nearly
straight bands in center of field. In lower
one-third of the vertical face a band of dirt
varying from 6" to 24" or 30" in thickness
is prominent, the wash from it soiling
the edges of the adjacent ice layers.
Debris consists of abundant fine gray sand
and mud containing great numbers of bowlders
of gray and red gneiss. In the lower left
hand corner of the view are three or four
large blocks of ice-and-dirt which fell last
winter from the vertical ice front. Stones
constantly loosen and roll down from
the thick layer of dirt making a great
noise in the arctic stillness which is