GLACIERS. 



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(see the illustration, p. 596). That gives us a very faiv idea of the ice-river, 

 but the cut below is a good specimen of a glacier. 



we start 

 up from 

 Chamouni, 

 or come 

 across from 

 Arge nti- 

 d re s, we 

 shall reach 

 the Mon- 

 tanvert by 

 ascending 

 th ro u gh 

 the wood, 

 or by the 

 "Chapeau," 

 across the 

 ice-sea. As 

 we take 

 the former 

 course, we 

 walk along 

 s i d e a 



white-flowing and rapid river, 

 the Arve, which unites with the 

 P Rhone below Geneva. This 

 river divides, and if we keep 

 alongside one (the right or south 

 branch), we shall reach the moraine 

 and the icy grotto, from which the 

 water issues. It is in this way many 

 large rivers are born. The Rhine, 

 the Rhone, the Aar, the Ticino, have 

 alJ of them their sources in the ice. 

 The Visp and the Sass waters are 

 other almost equally well-known 

 examples. 



There used to be a grotto or 

 cavern, into which the tourist could 

 enter at the source of the Arveiron, and 

 here the beautiful blue of the ice could 

 be studied. From this place the Chapeau 

 is reached, up a stony path amid the trees, and from the top outside the hut 



.Source of the Rhtr 



