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forces. The frost-figures on the window-panes of the 

 auberge were wonderful : rniniic shrubs and ferns 

 wrought by the building power while hampered bj 

 the adhesion between the glass and the film in which it 

 worked. The appearance of the glacier was very iinpres- 



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sive ; all sounds were stilled. The cascades which in 

 summer fill the air with their music were silent, hano-ino- 

 from the ledges of the rocks in fluted columns of ice. 

 The surface of the glacier was obviously higher than it 

 had been in summer; suggesting the thought that while 

 the winter cold maintained the lower end of the glacier 



