288 PEOFESSOB TYNDALL ON THE VEINED STEL'CTraE OF GLACIEES. 
of riaciers in the neighbourhood of Monte Eosa. The general mechanical conditions of 
the!e glaciers will be evident to an observer stationed upon the Gomer Grat, a point of 
Itw well known to travellers, and famous for the magnificence of the panorama which 
TthroLrver stands here, facing Monte Eosa, the great Gomer glacmr, comij 
down from the heights of the old Weissthor at his left, flows beneath him. It is jomed. 
in lts course, by a series of glaciers from the sides of the opposite range of mountains. 
First of all comes the western glacier of Monte Eosa, which really oug it 
name to the trunk stream, as it is the most considerable of its tnbutaiies. Into t 
glacier of Monte Eosa, and before the latter reaches the trunk vaUey, a glacier from the 
tZ Calr and FoUux, pours its contents. Afterwards we have the Schwarze gWr. 
which lies between the Twins and the Breithorn ; then the Tnfti “J®" 
the flank of the Breithorn, and afterwards the glaciers of the little Mont Cer™ an 
St. Theodule. The accompanying sketch (fig. 7) will render intelligible what have 
say regarding these glaciers. ^ 
'MonXe Mosa 
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Gorner Glac/er 
TiiUux 
The small Gornerhorn glacier, which comes down the sides of Monte Eosa, is a very 
Singular one. In comparison with the western glacier of Monte Eosa its mass is insigni- 
ficant, and it is abruptly cut off by the latter along the line u J, a moraine 
here which may be regarded as foiming, at once, the termmal moraine o le o 
glacier and the lateral moraine of the other. Thus the smaller glacier coming down he 
mountain side abuts against its more powerful neighbour, and we should infer from 
inspection of the glacier that its termmus is subjected to great pressure. 
