24 GLAUCUS; OR, 
that as soon as the cliff abuts on the downs right 
and left, it forms pinnacles, caves, broken angular 
boulders? Syenite usually does so in our damp 
climate, from the “ weathering” effect of frost and 
rain: why has it not done so over the lake? On 
that part something (giants perhaps) has been 
scrambling up or down on a very large scale, and 
so rubbed off every corner which was inclined to 
come away, till the solid core of the rock was bared. 
And may not those mysterious giants have had a — 
hand in carrying the stones across the lake? ... 
Really, I am not altogether jesting. Think a while 
what agent could possibly have produced either 
one or both of these effects? 
There is but one; and that, if you have been 
an Alpine traveller—much more if you have been 
a Chamois hunter—you have seen many a time 
(whether you knew it or not) at the very same work. 
Ice? Yes; ice; Hrymir the frost-giant, and no 
one else. And if you will look at the facts, you 
will see how ice may have done it. Our friend 
John Jones’s report of plains and bogs and a lake 
