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4 October. 9x31.3!5/35 - Looking out
Toward mouth of fjord from near house.
9x31-4 8/35-V Cove in front of house.
Low tide showing cakes of ice on
partly destroyed ice foot.
7 October - Spec. 697. Quartzite peb-
tle from terrace near house - Shows
worm burrows (?) (and rounded
20 Oct - Starr Island is well covered glacially
25 October. Mac, Jot and I with the help of
Tutakasu and McCarpingwah set a
line of stakes across Brother John's glacier, about one-third mile from
lower end - Perhaps 500 ft above the sea. Mac used theodolite and
considered line to be normal to the
axis of fjord and glacier - Stakes are ordinary inch gas pipe about
3'6" long and are sunk in auger
holes 14 or 15 inches deep. There are 16
of the stakes and the intervening spaces
measure from 50 to 100 yards in length.
Outer stakes are on brink of steep sides
of the glacier bordering the side valleys.
All are set in the tops of hummocks
of solid ice - The surface of the glacier
is extremely hummocky, there being