THE FORMS OF WATEE 



V- iin.'h to the light, the Glacier du Ge:-mt. 

 It. stretches smoothly up for a long distance, 

 I hen becomes disturbed, and then changes to 

 a great frozen cascade, down which the ice 

 appears to tumble in wild confusion. Above 

 the cascade you see an expanse of shinmg 

 snow, occupying an area of some square 

 miles. 



14. ICE-CASCADE AND SNOWS OP THE 



COL DU GEANT. 



119. Instead of climbing to tho height where 

 we now stand, we might have continued our 

 walk upon the Mer do Gluvc turned round 



the promontory of Teilap^itc, and walked 

 right up the Glacier du Geant. We should 

 have found ice under our feet up to the bottom 

 of the cascade. It is not so compact as the 

 ice lower down, but you would not think of 

 icf using to call it ice. 



120. A we approach the fall, the smooth 

 and unbroken character of the glacier 

 changes more and more. We encounter 

 transverse ridges succeeding each other with 

 augmenting steepness. The ice becomes 

 more and more fissured and confused. We 

 wind through tortuous ravines, climb huge 

 ice-mounds, and creep cautiously along 



