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SPARKS FROM A GEOLOGIST S HAMME11. 



hemisphere.* From this spot was fittingly 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 ruins, 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 Prussia, the hut from which his 

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

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

 Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung, were dated from " Hotel des Neucluitelois." On 

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

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

 here he passes some weeks of every summer. 



