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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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THE SNOWFIELDS AND THE COLUMBIA GLACIER WITH ITS MORAINES AND A MARGINAL LAKE COLUMBIA GLACIER—ALASKAS TYPICAL ICE TONGUE 71
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MAP OF THE BOROUGHS OF MANHATTAN AND BROOKLYN. NEW YORK CITY, SUPERIMPOSEDON THE LOWER PORTION OF COLUMBIA GLACIER (The Battery at the terminus of the glacier, with Brooklyn Navy Yard near the eastern and Hoboken andJersey City near the western margin) tL THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS smaller than the little branch of ColumbiaGlacier shown on the right in the diagram,and most of the well-known ice tongues of theAl()s, like the Mer de Glace, Rhone, and Gor-ner Glaciers, are no wider than Central Park,which would occupy a very small portion ofthe width of Columbia Glacier. Yet this isnot one of the largest ice tongues in Alaska,which has a single glacier larger than RhodeIsland, Malaspina Glacier, fed by many tribu-taries of the magnitude of Columbia Glacier.Imagine yourself on Governors Island.The accompanying photograph of Columbia terminus. It is of interest to know what be-comes of the ice. The photograph on thefacing page is a more intimate view of aportion of the ice cliflf. From

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