26 GLAUCUS; OR, 
again in the face of the ice-cliff, and dropped out 
of it under the melting of the summer sun, to form 
a huge dam across the ravine; till, the “Ice age” 
past, a more genial climate succeeded, and nevé 
and glacier melted away: but the “moraine” of 
stones did not, and remains to this day, as the 
dam which keeps up the waters of the lake. 
There is my explanation. If you can find a 
better, do: but remember always that it must in- 
clude an answer to—“ How did the stones get 
across the lake?” 
Now, reader, we have had no abstruse science 
here, no long words, not even a microscope or a 
book: and yet we, as two plain sportsmen, have 
gone back, or been led back by fact and common 
sense, into the most awful and sublime depths, 
into an epos of the destruction and re-creation of 
a former world. 
This is but a single instance; I might give 
hundreds. This one, nevertheless, may have some 
effect in awakening you to the boundless world of 
wonders which is all around you, and make you 
