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GLACIERS OF THE ALPS. 



Upper 

 Galleby. 



Table-case 



18. 



the 



■Moraine mud, sand, and fine angular gravel, in 



in Recess 41. Grimsel roa d, 1,616 feet above the sea. 



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19. — Moraine 



very 

 Oberhasli. 



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20. — Moraine 



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clay, containing scratched Alpine peb- 

 bles, and covering ice-polished limestone, in the quarry of 

 Baumann, about three quarters of a mile north of Soleure 

 This spot on the banks of the Aar, below the Jura, is about 

 40 English miles from the nearest glaciers of the Bernese 

 Alps. 



Specimens illustrative of the difference between ordinary sea 

 sand, and glacier sand and gravel—The first is generally 

 rounded and waterworn, the second comparatively rough 



and angular. 



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21. 



l sand, Dunes of Bayonne, F> 

 22. — Sea sand, Mediterranean, Barcelona, 



23 — Sea sand, 



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Malaga, 



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by glaciers on the 

 down which they pass. 



of the polish 



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24.— Granitic rock, polished and striated, in place, at 



Pavilion of M. Dolf, 



25.— Q 



of 



Aar 



26. — Granite, polished by the isolated glacier of the 

 Helle-Platte at Handeck, valley of Oberhasli. 



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