x.] ALPINE TRAVELS, 1843. 299 



June 27th, 1842, to September 12th, 1843 = 442 days, 

 it had moved 320 feet, or 8 '7 inches per day. 



' 1 then ascended the couvcrcle to the edge of the 

 Glacier de TaleTre opposite the Jardin, and corrected 



details of my map. Being anxious to obtain a 

 good bird's-eye view of the Mer de Glace, and more 

 particularly its moraines, I mounted a rock at the south - 



: foot of the Aiguille du Moine, which commands the 

 whole glacier magnificently as far as the Montanvert, 

 and was fortunate enough to make from there a very 

 iiitriv-uini!; observation. 



'The dirt-bands were beautifully traced before me, as 

 A thrm last year: but above the Tre'laporte (beyond 

 which on that occasion I was prevented by a fall of snow 

 in >in tracing them), I counted six new ones on the lower 

 <i lacier du Geant, after which succeeded a space of the 

 glacier which might contain three more, but these latter 



1 not distinguishable. Above this, again, came a 

 ung and beautiful appearance which was quite new 



t me. The immense fall of snow of the previous winter 

 had not been entirely melted during the whole summer, 

 and still lay in all the hollows where it could accumulate, 

 and accordingly the higher part of the Glacier du Grant 

 marked by broad snow-bands, evidently filling hollows 

 in the surface of the glacier ; and these bands corre- 

 uded precisely in form and intervals to the dirt-bands. 

 These wrinkles on the ice resembled those on a cow's horn, 

 and I am not sure whether they have not one point in 

 common the indication of annual growth. . . . Counting 

 i the nine dirt-band spaces previously observed above 

 Trulaporte, I counted ten of these snowy wrinkles, 

 which I considered to form a continuation of the former 

 --altogether nineteen dirt-bands, terminating opposite the 

 Aig de Blaitiere, and, as the distance is about 9,000 feet, 

 averaging 474 feet apart. . . . Auguste and I mana 

 to scramble down a steep couloir from my station on tin- 

 rocks of the Aig. du Mniiio: the forms of ihr nriolibmir- 

 ing ravines were savagr in tlir extreme, ihr rock of this 

 being peculiarly hard and rough, but we regain, d 



