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SPARKS FR031 A GEOLOGIST S HAMMER. 



hemisphere.* From this spot was fittingl}^ brought a huge 

 mass of Alpine granite, to commemorate the final resting- 

 place of his mortal body in the beautiful cemetery of 



ERRATIC BLOCKS ON THE GLACIER OF THE AAR. THE SPOT WHERE 

 AGASSIZ AND HIS COMPANIONS ENCAMPED FOR THE INVESTIGA- 

 TION OF THE GLACIERS. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH ON GLASS BY 

 J. LEVY ET CIE., PARIS. 



* The eminent Swiss naturalist, Hugi, in 1827 caused a hut, now in ruiii^;, to 

 be constructed on the ice at the junction of the two glaciers the Ober and the 

 Unter-Aar glaciers. This, in 1840, had been transported by the glacier to the 

 distance of 5,900 feet. It was on the same glacier that Agassiz, then professor at 

 Neuchatel. erected, at the expense of the King of Prus!>ia, the hut from which his 

 celebrated observations were made. He was accompanied by Messrs. E. Desor. 

 C. Vogt, Wild and others. The accounts of their observations, published in the 

 Augsburg Allcjemeine Zeifung, were dated from " Hotel des Neuchatelois." On 

 the summit of a rocky projection, near the same spot, a "pavilion" has been 

 more recently erected by M. Dolfuss-Aussct, of Miihlhausen (in Alsace), and 

 here he passes some weeks of every summer. 



