294 iJic American Geologist. ■ November, i898 
ing high up on the grassy mountain opposite these glaciers 
for its glorious view of the snowclad Bernese Oberland 
mountain range, culminating in the Finsteraarhorn and the 
Jungfrau. Thus far our few days in the Alps had been favored 
with the most beautiful weather; but Thursday brought rain, 
in which we went onward to Bern, visiting its very interesting 
historical and archaeological museum, cathedral, clock tower, 
and bears' den, thence continuing in the clearer afternoon to 
Lausanne, with its magnificent prospect across the lake of 
Geneva. On Friday we regretfully left Switzerland, and 
passed through the Jura ranges and by Dijon to Paris. In- 
stead of less than a week, I would again spend a month or 
two, or a year, amid this grand Tyrolese and Swiss country, 
the playground, resting-place, end sanitarium of Europe. 
Excavation in the glacial drift for a cellar, in the year 1872, 
first revealed a part of the very admirable group of giants' 
kettles which is now one of the chief attractions of sight-seers 
in Lucerne. This town itself is in many respects the most 
fascinating one for tourists in Switzerland, and the most 
convenient for many neighboring excursions, as to Mts. Rigi 
and Pilatus, and the sail on the wildly picturesque and historic 
Lake of the Four Forest Cantons. The Glacier Garden is 
about 100 feet above the lake, and is only a few steps from the 
Lion Monument designed by Thorvaldsen, which was chiselled 
from the solid rock fifty years earlier (in 1821). Thirty-two 
pot-holes of moulin torrent erosion are inclosed in the Garden, 
occurring irregularly grouped upon a remarkably furrowed, 
waterworn, and glacially striated rock area about eight rods 
long and four rods wide, which was originally so drift-covered 
that its wonderful torrential and glacial sculpture was con- 
cealed. The covering of soil and drift has been removed since 
1872, and many rounded stones, which served as grinders 
rapidly whirled around by the falling waters, from those of 
small size up to others of huge dimension, five feet or more 
in diameter, have been removed with the gravel, sand, and 
clay that filled these rock kettles. 
A very interesting rock canon, which was subglacially eroded by 
the large stream flowing from the lower glacier, is now exposed by its 
retreat along a crooked course of about 1,000 feet. The cafion is 
mainly about 150 feet deep, and varies from 15 to 100 feet in width, 
except that it is in part narrowed and closed above, along a distance of 
about 200 feet, by movement of the rock walls, originally separate but 
now in contact. 
