Greenland 2 1916 Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Geol.ic. Photographs
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41 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