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the crowding together of its medial moraines. We see 

 the comparatively clean surface of the Glacier du 

 Geant ; but we notice upon this surface an ap- 

 pearance which we have not hitherto seen. It is 



crossed by a series of grey bent bands, which folio w 

 each other in succession, from Trelaporte downwards. 

 We count eighteen of these from our present position. 

 (See sketch, page 128.) 



