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as ** deposits formed in the ravines of high mountains." 

 He himself recognises the analogy of their form to that of 

 the moraines of existing glaciers. Unfortunately, he has not 

 ascertained whether they contain rubbed or striated pebbles. 

 Negative or positive, this character was of such importance, 

 that I am forced to believe that it was completely unknown 

 to him ; for he must have searched for these pebbles with the 

 greater eagerness, as their absence would have been a decisive 

 proof that these masses are not moraines, but deposits entirely 

 aqueous. 



2dy When the transported formation presents itself under 

 the form of even or terraced surfaces, it shews an imperfect 

 stratification, and its exterior shape indicates the action of 

 water. But these formations are almost wholly composed of 

 that layer of mud, sand, and gravel (inoraine profonde), which 

 is found in the lower part of all glaciers, afterwards ar- 

 ranged by the waters. The proof of this is to be found in 

 the presence of large pebbles, or rather blocks striated by the 

 ice, blocks which exist neither in the sea, nor in lakes, nor in 

 torrents ; for, not only does transportation by water not stri- 

 ate pebbles, but it effaces the striae, as any one may convince 

 himself by examining any of the torrents which issue from 

 the glaciers of Switzerland. 



In his travels in Southern Scandinavia during this summer, 

 M. Desor found striated pebbles in Denmark in a transported 

 formation, with an even surface, across which the railway 

 from Copenhagen to Koeskild passes, and in the neighbour- 

 hood of Kioege, on the coast of Seeland, to the south of the 

 capital. In Norway he again found them in a transported 

 formation of terraces at Sorgenfry, near Christiana, on the 

 road which leads from that town to Krogleben, and in the 

 muddy deposits on the sides of the Drammen, at its outlet into 

 Drammen-Fiord. In Sweden he saw striated pebbles in the 

 same kind of formation, particularly in the loamy terraces of 

 Berg, near lake Wettern. 



These striated pebbles are not the only signs which dis- 

 close the glacial origin of these deposits ; they likewise in- 

 close marine shells. A great number of these have no ana- 

 logues in the neighbouring seas ; they are, according to M. 



