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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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There
is
but
one;
and
that,
if
you
have
been
an
Alpine
traveller—
much
more
if
you
have
been
a
Chamois
hunter—
you
have
seen
many
a
time
(whether
you
knew
it
or
not)
at
the
very
same
work.
Ice?
Yes;
ice;
Hrymir
the
frost-giant,
and
no
one
else.
And
if
you
will
look
at
the
facts,
you
will
see
how
ice
may
have
done
it.
Our
friend
John
Jones’s
report
of
plains
and
bogs
and
a
lake
above
makes
it
quite
possible
that
in
the
“Ice
age”
(Glacial
Epoch,
as
the
big-word-mongers
call
it)
there
was
above
that
cliff
a
great
neve,
or
snowfield,
such
as
you
have
seen
often
in
the
Alps
at
the
head
of
each
glacier.
Over
the
face
of
this
cliff
a
glacier
has
crawled
down
from
that
neve,
polishing
the
face
of
the
rock
in
its
descent:
but
the
snow,
having
no
large
and
deep
outlet,
has
not
slid
down
in
a
sufficient
stream
to
reach
the
vale
below,
and
form
a
glacier
of
the
first
order;
and
has
therefore
stopped
short
on
the
other
side
of
the
lake,
as
a
glacier
of
the
second
order,
which
ends
in
an
ice-cliff
hanging
high
up
on
the
mountain
side,
and
kept
from
further
progress
by
daily
melting.
If
you
have
ever
gone
up
the
Mer
de
Glace
to
the
Tacul,
you
saw
a
magnificent
specimen
of
this
sort
on
your
right
hand,
just
opposite
the
Tacul,
in
the
Glacier
de
Trelaporte,
which
comes
down
from
the
Aiguille
de
Charmoz.
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