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THE FORMS OF WATER IN 



The glacier descends a steep gorge, and in doing so is 

 riven and broken in the most extraordinary manner. 

 Here are towers, and pinnacles, and fantastic shapes 

 wrought out by the action of the weather, which put 

 one in mind of rude sculpture. Annexed is a sketch 

 of an ice-pinnacle. From deep chasms in the glacier 



ICE-PINNACLE. 



issues a delicate shimmer of blue light. At times we 

 hear a sound like thunder, which arises either from 

 the falling of a tower of ice, or from the tumble of a 

 huge stone into a chasm. The glacier maintains this 

 wild and chaotic character for some time ; and the best 



