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34192	Tyndall, John	The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, an account of the origin and phenomena of glaciers and an exposition of the physical principles to which they are related			.txt	text/plain	146689	7000	71	glacier, formed by the snow and shattered ice which fall from the was directed as a place noted for avalanches; on this rock snow or ice glacier to be a sheet of ice spread out upon the slope of a mountain; On this day we saw some fine glacier tables; flat masses of rock, raised In the ice near Trélaporte the blue veins of the glacier are beautifully hardly reach the surface until they pass the snow-line of the glacier, glacier; but long ago the blue ice gave place to blue water. blue ice rifts, the stratified snow-precipices, the glaciers issuing direct heat of the sun, the ice underneath the moraines of glaciers At its origin then a glacier is snow--at its lower extremity it is ice. the snow of the mountains is converted into the ice of the glacier by [Sidenote: THE ICE AND THE GLACIER.] [Sidenote: CONSTITUTION OF GLACIER-ICE.]	./cache/34192.txt	./txt/34192.txt