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131. These stripes are the medial moraines of bhc 

 Mer de Glace. We shall learn more about them im- 

 mediately. 



132. And now, having informed our minds by these 

 observations, let our eyes wander over the whole glo- 

 rious scene, the splintered peaks and the hacked and 

 jagged crests, the far- stretching snow-fields, the smaller 

 glaciers which nestle on the heights, the deep blue 

 heaven and the sailing clouds. Is it not worth some 

 labour to gain command of such a scene ? But the 

 delight it imparts is heightened by the fact that we 

 did not come expressly to see it ; we came to instruct 

 ourselves about the glacier, and this high enjoyment is 

 an incident of our labour. You will find it thus 

 through life ; without honest labour there can be no 

 deep joy. 



§ 17. The Talefre and the Jardin. Work among the 



Crevasses. 



133. And now let us descend to the Mer de Glace, 

 fcr I want to take you across the glacier to that broken 

 ice-fall the origin of which we have not yet seen. We 

 aim at the farther side of the glacier, and to reach it 

 we must cross those dark stripes of debris which we 

 observed from the heights. Looked at from above, these 

 moraines seemed flat, but now we find them to be 

 ridges of stones and rubbish, from twenty to thirty feet 

 high. 



