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gravelly clay so slightly eroded as to forbid the belief that they 
ave been transported to any considerable distance from the place 
of their origin. 
Then I observed that this muddy stream issued from a bank of 
legs quarried stones and dirt, that was sixty or seventy feet in 
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e This I at once took to be a moraine. In climbing to the 
top of it, I was struck with the steepness of its slope, and with i 
raw, unsettled, plantless, new e. Th htest 
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abundant near the bottom of the bank, I shouted “A living 
Glacier |” mae 4 
ese bent dirt-lines show that the ice is following in its dif- 
ferent parts with unequal velocity, and these imbedded stones are 
Journeying down, to be built into the moraine, and they gradually 
become more abundant as they approach the moraine, because 
there the motion is slower. , 
On traversing my new-found glacier, Icame to a crevasse, down 
a wide and jagged portion of which I succeeded in making my 
way, and discovered that my so-called snow-bank was clear, green 
