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posed as he was to all the prominent geolo- 

 gists of the day, he said : " Among the older 

 naturalists, only one stood by me. Dr. Buck- 

 land, Dean of Westminster, who had come to 

 Switzerland at my urgent request for the ex- 

 press purpose of seeing my evidence, and who 

 had been fully convinced of the ancient ex- 

 tension of ice there, consented to accompany 

 me on my glacier hunt in Great Britain. We 

 went first to the Highlands of Scotland, and 

 it is one of the delightful recollections of my 

 life that as we approached the castle of the 

 Duke of Argyll, standing in a valley not un- 

 like some of the Swiss valleys, I said to Buck- 

 land : ' Here we shall find our first traces of 

 glaciers ; ' and, as the stage entered the val- 

 ley, we actually drove over an ancient termi- 

 nal moraine, which spanned the opening of 

 the valley." In short, Agassiz found, as he 

 had anticipated, that in the mountains of 

 Scotland, Wales, and the north of England, 

 the valleys were in many instances traversed 

 by terminal moraines and bordered by lateral 

 ones, as in Switzerland. Nor were any of 

 the accompanying phenomena wanting. The 

 characteristic traces left by the ice, as well 

 known to him now as the track of the game 

 to the hunter; the peculiar lines, furrows, 



