. The fascination of Switzerland. Schreckhorn range. It was at the foot of this arete that the Swissnatuialist Hugi put up a hut in which severaleminent men made important scientific observa-tions. Among these savants was a certain onenamed Stengel, who carved his name on a frag-ment of rock. The hut disappeared, but thefragment of rock pursued its slow travels on themedial moraine, and in 1884, about forty yearsafter it was engraved near the Absehwung, it wasdiscovered 2,650 yards lower down, opposite thePavilion Dollfus, another little hut put up as ashelter for scientific observers, but now
. The fascination of Switzerland. Schreckhorn range. It was at the foot of this arete that the Swissnatuialist Hugi put up a hut in which severaleminent men made important scientific observa-tions. Among these savants was a certain onenamed Stengel, who carved his name on a frag-ment of rock. The hut disappeared, but thefragment of rock pursued its slow travels on themedial moraine, and in 1884, about forty yearsafter it was engraved near the Absehwung, it wasdiscovered 2,650 yards lower down, opposite thePavilion Dollfus, another little hut put up as ashelter for scientific observers, but now used as aclub hut. This tells us that the UnteraarGlacier has been flowing at the rate of 66 yards ayear, or rather less than 4 feet a week, but differentglaciers flow at different rates. Through its ten miles of length—it is secondonly to the Great Aletsch, which with its sixteenand a half miles, is the longest glacier in the Alps—the Unteraar Glacier exhibits other interestinglectures besides the immensity of its middle74,. OF SWITZERLAND concerning glaciers moraine. It is strewn with glacier-tables, whichare perhaps the most curious of glacier stones, supported on one or more conicalpillars of ice, hover at heights above the surface,varying from a few inches to 6 or 8 feet. Whilethe general surface of the glacier is being meltedby the snn, large stones in a certain positionintercept the suns rays, and by protecting the icebehind or beneath them keep that part unmelted,till at last regular columns are left, with the pro-tecting stones at the top, for all the world likegiant sunshades. Why some glaciers supply theseand others do not is a question of the direction inwhich the glacier runs, some being shaded by themountains from much of the suns direct heat. The stones sometimes fall from their supportsand leave their cones of ice; such cones aredotted about all over the Unteraar, and being ofall kinds of sizes give the impression of beingsome quaint kind of
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