The forms of water in clouds & rivers, ice & glaciers / by John Tyndall ... with thirty-five illustrations drawn and engraved under the direction of the author.

  • John Tyndall
Date:
1873
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The forms of water in clouds & rivers, ice & glaciers / by John Tyndall ... with thirty-five illustrations drawn and engraved under the direction of the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    Aftek an absence of twelve years, X visited the Her de Glace last June. It exhibited in a striking degree that excess of consumption over supply which, if continued, will eventually reduce the Swiss glaciers to the mere spectres of their former selves. When I first saw the Mer de Glace its ice-cliffs towered over Les Mottets, and an arm of the Arveiron, issuing from the cliffs’ plunged as a powerful cascade down the rocks. The ice has now shrunk far behind them. A huge moraine, left behind by the retreating glacier, will mark, for some time to come, its recent magnitude. The vault of the l'veiron has dwindled considerably. The way up to the Chapeau lies on the top of a lateral moraine, reached a ew years ago by the surface of the glacier, the present surface lying far below. The visible and continual reakmg away of the moraines, left thus stranded on the mountain flank, explains the absence of ancient ridges on