. The life and work of John Ruskin. ) ; andhe suggested that this action was continuous,—certainlynot catastrophic, as another art-writer turned geologist,the great Viollet le Due, twelve years later implied in theopening words of his work on Mont Blanc* As examples of Savoy mountains this lecture describedin detail the Saleve, on which Mr. Ruskin had been livingfor two winters, and the Brezon, the top of which he hadtried to buy from the commune of Bonneville—one of hismany plans for settling among the Alps. The communethought he had found a gold-mine up there, and raised theprice out of all
. The life and work of John Ruskin. ) ; andhe suggested that this action was continuous,—certainlynot catastrophic, as another art-writer turned geologist,the great Viollet le Due, twelve years later implied in theopening words of his work on Mont Blanc* As examples of Savoy mountains this lecture describedin detail the Saleve, on which Mr. Ruskin had been livingfor two winters, and the Brezon, the top of which he hadtried to buy from the commune of Bonneville—one of hismany plans for settling among the Alps. The communethought he had found a gold-mine up there, and raised theprice out of all reason. Other attempts to make a home inthe chateaux or chalets of Savoy were foiled, or abandoned,like his earlier idea to live in Venice. But his scrambleson the Saleve led him to hesitate in accepting the expla-nation given by Alphonse Favrc of the curious north-west * La croute terrestre, refroidic an moment du plissement qui a formele massif du Mont Blanc, navait pas encore atteint le degr6 de duretequellc a acquis ] Husk, I DISSENT IN GEOLOGY. 33 face of steeply inclined vertical slabs, which he suspectedto be created by cleavage, on the analogy of other Jurassicprecipices. The Brezon—brisant, breaking-wave—he tookas type of the billowy form of limestone Alps in general,and his analysis of it was serviceable and substantiallycorrect. This lecture was followed in 1864 by desultory corre-spondence with Mr. Jukes and others in the Reader, inwhich he merely restated his conclusions, too slightly toconvince. Had he devoted himself to a thorough exami-nation of the subject—but this is in the region of whatmight have been. He was more seriously engaged in otherpursuits, of more immediate importance. Three days afterhis lecture he was being examined before the RoyalAcademy Commission, and after a short summer visit tovarious friends in the north of England, he set out againfor the Alps, partly to study the geology of Chamouni andNorth Switzerland, part
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