. Forestry in Norway [microform] : with notices of the physical geography of the country. Forests and forestry; Botany; Forêts et sylviculture; Botanique. 17* FOBESTRY OF away, and that probably by another, and, perhaps, another still; as is often found to be the case in making such ascents. And he saw little more than peaks of rocks and plains of snow, and a portion of ihe fond, or motherland ot glaciers, the vast table-land of snow and ice from which the numerous glaciers of this region descend. He descended and made for the pass that seemed the most likely to be the correct one. Of
. Forestry in Norway [microform] : with notices of the physical geography of the country. Forests and forestry; Botany; Forêts et sylviculture; Botanique. 17* FOBESTRY OF away, and that probably by another, and, perhaps, another still; as is often found to be the case in making such ascents. And he saw little more than peaks of rocks and plains of snow, and a portion of ihe fond, or motherland ot glaciers, the vast table-land of snow and ice from which the numerous glaciers of this region descend. He descended and made for the pass that seemed the most likely to be the correct one. Of what he saw he writes : — ' On reaching the summit a singular scene presented itself. At the foot of a vast amphitheatre of snowy moun- tain peaks is a gloomy basin of rock, filled with the waters of a half-frozen lake. The water comes directly from the snow above, and ia of a peculiar blue white, semi-opaque, London-milk colour, common to such snow water. 1 ai3 lake is called the Stiggevand, which, 1 believe, may be translated "Stygian Pool;" and a better name could scarcely be invented, for its gloom and desolate aspect would satisfy the imagination of the most dyspeptic and bilious of poets. ' The hollows, or basins, which occupy a higher level than the lake, are filled with snow and with ice formed by the melting and re-freezing of the snow. Thus filled up, they form great plains, having a surface of virgin snow, without a footmark, or a scratch, or spot visible. These apparent plains are, however, not quite level, but slope towards the rocky precipice rising above the lake, ihe ice sea, pressed forward by the mass above, flows over these walls in great bending sheets that reach a short way down, and then break off and drop in masses into the lake, their broken edges forming a blue cornice fringed with icicles. If these walls of the lake shore had sutii- cient slope to hold the icy cascade without breaking, glaciers would be formed; or if the supply of breakin
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