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SCENERY OF SWITZF.RI.AND. 
but taken in relation to its area it might almost be 
described as a film of water (see Fig. 68). 
Between Yvoire and Rolle, and at a depth of 
6o metres, is a remarkable bank known as the 
Ombli6re, because it is the best fishing ground for 
the “Omble Chevalier,” which comes there to breed. 
It is an old moraine, and is also remarkable because 
a moss (Thamnium alopecurum, var. Lemani) still 
lives on these stones.* 
The “blue waters of the arrowy Rhone”** “rush 
out with a depth of 15 feet,” says Ruskin, “of not 
Scale: horizontal 1:200 COO'-’, vertical 1:25 000«. 
Fig. 101. — Section across the Lake of Geneva from St. Prex 
to Amphion. 
flowing, but flying water; not water neither, melted 
glacier matter, one should call it; the force of the ice 
is in it, and the wreathing of the clouds, the glad- 
ness of the sky, and the countenance of the time.”*** 
The remains of the lake villages show that, as in 
the other great lakes, the surface level has varied 
very little for several thousand years; for if the water 
* Forel, Le Lema7i. 
** Byron. *** Ruskin. 
