Scottish geographical magazine . lass. Suchsurfaces occur under and round existing glaciers, where there can be nodoubt that they are the work of the ice, or rather of the stones containedin it. (Fig. 2 is a photograph of the Hospice of the Grimsel, showing aremarkable case of such glaciated rocks.) Similar surfaces occur, how-ever, far away from the present glaciers, and even in countries wherenone exist. The grey rounded bosses were termed by De Saussure** Roches Moutonnees, from their frizzled surface. The term has been 1 Forbes, Travels through the Alps of Savoy. 6 SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MA
Scottish geographical magazine . lass. Suchsurfaces occur under and round existing glaciers, where there can be nodoubt that they are the work of the ice, or rather of the stones containedin it. (Fig. 2 is a photograph of the Hospice of the Grimsel, showing aremarkable case of such glaciated rocks.) Similar surfaces occur, how-ever, far away from the present glaciers, and even in countries wherenone exist. The grey rounded bosses were termed by De Saussure** Roches Moutonnees, from their frizzled surface. The term has been 1 Forbes, Travels through the Alps of Savoy. 6 SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. generally adopted, mainly perhaps because at a distance they look notunlike sheeps backs. Smooth rock surfaces may often be seen at the sidesof valleys, sometimes at a great height—many hundred or even somethousands of feet above the present river, and far away from the presentglaciers, as, for instance, on the slopes of the Jura. They are speciallywell developed where from a turn in the valley, or any other cause, the. Fig. 2.—Tlie Hospice of the Griinsel, sliowiug tlie glaciatt-il rocks in tlic iK-ighljourhood. ice met with most resistance. The rocks at Martigny are a very fineexample. The Flora and Fauna. Another class of evidence is that derived from botany and of the plants now occupying the Swiss mountains are indigenousto the Arctic regions. They could not under existing circumstancescross the intervening plains, but must have occupied them when theclimate was colder than it is now, and been driven up into the moun-tains, like the Marmot and the Chamois, as the temperature rose. TheArctic Willows, the Larch, and Arolla Pine, for instance, are Siberianspecies, and do not occur in Germany. The animal kingdom also affords us similar evidence. The MuskSheep, the Urus, the Aurochs, the Mammoth, Hairy Rhinoceros,Reindeer, Elk, the Giant Stag or Irish Elk, Glutton, Ibex, Chamois, THE SCENERY OF SWITZERLAND, 7 Cave Hyaena, Cave Bear, Polar Fox, Lemming,
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