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a quarter of a mile long, and one-eighth of a mile 
broad, and 150 feet high, rounded at the upper end 
and precipitous on the north-east towards the lower 
valley, showing that the ice flow was in the direction 
of the Inn. On the other hand, at Sils Maria is a 
similar mass of rock, with the slope towards the 
north-east and the precipitous side on the south-west, 
showmg that the ice-flow was in the opposite direc- 
tion. The ice-shed therefore must have been some- 
where near Campfer. Just in front of the great Ma- 
loja Hotel are some beautiful specimens of Gneiss 
“roches moutonn^es.” 
The glacier reached a height of over 8000 feet, 
below which the rocks are rounded and smooth’ 
while higher up they are rough and jagged.* 
At Cinuskel the river diverges somewhat to the 
north of the line of sedimentary rocks, skirting them 
on the left, and for some distance has crystalline 
rocks on both banks. The reason of this is not ob- 
vious, but we must remember that the denudation 
has been immense, and the deflection is probably 
due to some cause connected with the strata which 
have been removed. At anyrate from Cinuskel to 
Guarda the sedimentary strata have been entirely re- 
Theobald, Beitr. z. Geol. K. d. Schw., L. m. 
