[Frost and fire : natural engines, tool-marks and chips : with sketches taken at home and abroad by a traveller] . It is the form of hills of loose rubbish which rest uponice-polished rocks, on lofty plateaux, all over the north of N 178 DENUDATION—FEOST-MAUKS. Scandinavia, in Scotland, Iceland, and elsewhere, in positionswhich appear inexplicahle, without the aid of floating ice. The woodcuts are from drawings traced with a pencilupon the glass of a camera obscura. The instrument wasaimed at a frying-pan. Fig. 34 shews a mass of wax andsand confusedly heaped together. Fig. 35 the same mass so
[Frost and fire : natural engines, tool-marks and chips : with sketches taken at home and abroad by a traveller] . It is the form of hills of loose rubbish which rest uponice-polished rocks, on lofty plateaux, all over the north of N 178 DENUDATION—FEOST-MAUKS. Scandinavia, in Scotland, Iceland, and elsewhere, in positionswhich appear inexplicahle, without the aid of floating ice. The woodcuts are from drawings traced with a pencilupon the glass of a camera obscura. The instrument wasaimed at a frying-pan. Fig. 34 shews a mass of wax andsand confusedly heaped together. Fig. 35 the same mass sorted by melting the wax over alamp. In the one case the fractured masses had no definiteshape ; in the other they had become dome-shaped heaps ofrubbish, and they were sorted by weight and heat. The frying-pan and its contents were aimed at land-ice,whose movements are but modifications of flowing and slid-ing, melting and freezing. The snow which feU on the top of the Schreckhorn was acone. The avalanche which fell upon the glacier (p. 159) wasa talus-heap. The water which was a freezing marsh of snowand i
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