lcc k on 



>i; 



( c °ntaini Dt 



GLACIERS OF THE ALrS. 



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27. — Quartz, polished and striated, from rock in place at Upper 

 the "Lac des Morts," on the road from the Grimsel to the Gallery 



Table-case 

 in Recess 41. 



glacier of the Rhone. 



28. — Limestone rock, polished and striated, in place at the 



quarry of Baumann about three quarters of a mile from 



l, . Soleure. Moraine matter from the Alps covers this rock, 



P containing polished and striated pebbles of Alpine lime- 



te ouarrvi . .,..,.., L . .. r 



quarry 



of Soleure 



ra, is abou: feet? 8 ^^^ f mor aine matter ; 



he Berne;- 



stone, touching the "roche moutonneeP 



29. — Conglomerate, polished and striated, covered by 4 



Chardonne (Torat), 547 yards from Torgni, Canton de 

 Vand. 



wdinary i 

 is general; 



lively m 



ance 



Spain 



• the vM 

 iar. 



in P 



la<ft 



ve 



the 



s» ; 









,cier 



of 



No. 30 to 39 s^oztf tfAg appearance of 



>/ 



in motion 



rface oj 



glaciers, or that have 



tferred 



?f 



transported by glacial action. — These stones are derived 

 from the mountains that skirt the glaciers, and they are 

 of every possible size, from a grain of sand up to a block 

 100 feet long by 40 or 50 feet high," or, in another case, 



o containing "244,000 cubic feet of slate;" (Forbes' Travels 



through the Alps, p. 46). The « blocks of Monthey," are 

 " composed of blocks of granite (resting on limestone), thirty, 

 forty, fifty, and sixty feet in the side ; not a few, but by 



angles 



of 



one 



hundreds, fantastically balanced on the 

 another, their grey weather-beaten tops standing out in 

 prominent relief from the verdant slopes of secondary 

 formation on which they rest." (Forbes, p. 52.) Moraine 

 stones are mostly angular and subangular, and sometimes 

 (as on parts of the Mer de Glace, Chamouni), they consist of 

 pieces as fresh as if broken by the hammer. Occasionally 



