Norway and its glaciers, visited in 1851 : followed by journals of excursions in the high Alps of Dauphné, Berne and Savoy . ndependentglaciers also fall into the valley—the Vetlie Brse on theleft and the Tvser Bras on the right, as shown in the sketchon the opposite page. About 900 yards in advance of theglacier is a great moraine, evidently modern. Its limits maybe at once traced all round, for no birch wood grows withinthem. Beyond a question, it is of the same date with thegreat extension of the Nygaard glacier, presently to bementioned, and of which the date is known. The TvaerBrse has a
Norway and its glaciers, visited in 1851 : followed by journals of excursions in the high Alps of Dauphné, Berne and Savoy . ndependentglaciers also fall into the valley—the Vetlie Brse on theleft and the Tvser Bras on the right, as shown in the sketchon the opposite page. About 900 yards in advance of theglacier is a great moraine, evidently modern. Its limits maybe at once traced all round, for no birch wood grows withinthem. Beyond a question, it is of the same date with thegreat extension of the Nygaard glacier, presently to bementioned, and of which the date is known. The TvaerBrse has a corresponding moraine. These ridge-like accu-mulations are called by the peasants Bree-vor, vox mean-ning an artificial heap. The ascent upon the ice of the glacier is exceedingly * It is also called the glacier of Berset from the name of the highestfarm in the valley. GLACIERS OF KEONDAL. 165 easy; and I found the veined or slaty structure, universallyfound in the Swiss glaciers, to be developed here in the samemanner and similarly disposed with reference to the shape Br a en fjUh^l fy/n, ^^u l/l/l<\ ,. Tiar Hid of the glacier as I have detailed elsewhere in describingthese. The crevasses are few, chiefly towards the centre otthe ice, and radiating in the lower part, as in Fig. 2, page172 of my Travels in the Alps. The whole indicates a con-dition of great pressure from above, derived from the con-solidation of the icefall already mentioned, the bottom orsole of the valley being comparatively flat. I estimated(by the aneroid barometer) the foot of the glacier to be857 feet above the church of Justedal, or 1317 above thesea. ° I traversed the ice nearly along the axis or medialline of the glacier until the slope became abrupt, and found* Lars Krones house, where I slept, was 667 feet above Jnstcdal parson- 166 JUSTEDAL. the absolute height to be 2137 feet. The slope in the middleregion of the glacier is 7^°; and I had little difficultythroughout the greater p
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