passing over the brow of the cataract, and how they
were welded.

The weather was now clear, opening views accord-
ing to my own heart far into the high snowy fountains.
I saw what seemed the farthest mountains, perhaps
thirty miles from the front, everywhere winter-bound,
but thick forested, however steep, for a distance of at
least fifteen miles from the front, the trees, hemlock
and spruce, clinging to the rock by root-holds among
cleavage joints. The greatest discovery was in meth-
ods of denudation displayed beneath the glacier.

After a few more days of exhilarating study I re-
turned to the river-bank opposite Choquette's land-
ing. Promptly at sight of the signal I made, the kind
Frenchman came across for me in his canoe. At his
house I enjoyed a rest while writing out notes; then
examined the smaller glacier fronting the one I had
been exploring, until a passing canoe bound for Fort
Wrangell took me aboard.

-113-