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Peaks, Passes and Glaciers: A Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club (1859)

Ball, John (Ed.) · Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts (London) · leaf 486

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454 ANCIENT GLACIERS. [cuar. xvl. erratic blocks, one of which, of great size, is known as Maen, or the stone. … Much of this Drift, though rudely stratified, singularly resembles ordinary moraine matter in the appearance and quality of its mud, and the polish, approximate angularity, scratched surfaces, and sizes of its stones. From circumstances presently to be mentioned, it is to me certain, that at a time…

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