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spent there were all too short for the work he 

 had hoped to do. Yet, trained as he was in 

 glacial phenomena, even so cursory an obser- 

 vation satisfied him that in the southern, as in 

 the northern hemisphere, the present glaciers 

 are but a remnant of the ancient ice-period. 



After two days of open sea and head winds, 

 the next anchorage was in Port San Pedro, a 

 very beautiful bay opening on the north side 

 of Corcovado Gulf, with snow mountains in 

 full sight ; the Peak of Corcovado and a 

 wonderfully symmetrical volcanic mountain, 

 Melimoya, white as purest marble to the sum- 

 mit, were clearly defined against the sky. 

 Forests clothed the shore on every side, and 

 the shelving beach met the wood in a bank of 

 wild Bromelia, most brilliant in color. Not 

 only were excellent collections made on this 

 beach, but the shore was strewn with large 

 accumulations of erratics. Among them was 

 a green epidotic rock which Agassiz had 

 traced to this spot from the Bay of San An- 

 tonio on the Patagonian coast, without ever 

 finding it in place. Some of the larger boul- 

 ders had glacial furrows and scratches upon 

 them, and all the hills bordering the shore 

 were rounded and moutonnee. One of the 

 great charms for Agassiz in the scenery of all 



