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was bared. And may not those mysterious giants 

 have had a hand in carrying the stones across the 

 lake ? . . . Eeally I am not altogether jesting. 

 Think awhile what agent could possibly have 

 produced either one, or both, of those effects ? 



Thex-e is but one ; and that, if you have been 

 an Alpine traveller, much more if you have been 

 a chamois hunter, you have seen many a time 

 (whether you knew it or not) at the very same 

 work. 



Ice ? Yes ; ice ; Ilrymir the frost-giant, and 

 no one else. And if you will look at the facts, 

 you Avill see how ice may have done it. Our 

 friend John Jones's report of plains and bogs 

 and a lake above makes it quite possible that in 

 the " Ice age " (Glacial Epoch, as the big-word- 

 mongers call it) there was above that cliff a great 

 neve, or snowfield, such as you have seen often 

 in the Alps at the head of each glacier. Over 

 the face of this cliff a glacier has crawled down 

 from that nev6, polishing the face of the rock in 

 its descent : but the snow, having no large and 

 deep outlet, has not slid down in a sufficient 

 stream to reach the vale below, and form a gla- 

 cier of the first order ; and has therefore stopped 

 short on the other side of the lake, as a glacier of 



