CLOUDS AND KIVERS, ICE AND GLACIER'S. 



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of the Gorner into white stripes, which become ever 

 narrower between their bounding moraines, and finally 

 disappear under their own shingle. 



359. On the two main tributaries we also notice 

 moraines which seem in each case to rise from the 

 body of the glacier, appearing in the middle of the 



THE GORNER GLACIER, WITH MONTE ROSA IN THE DISTANCE, AND THE 

 RIFFELHORN TO THE LEFI. 



ice without any apparent origin higher up. These 

 at their sources, are sub-glacial moraines, which have 

 been rubbed away from rocky promontories entirely 

 covered with ice. They lie hidden for a time in the 

 body of the glacier, and appear at the surface where 

 the ice above them has been melted away by the sun. 



