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6 mudy stream issued from a bank of fresh quarried stones dirt, that was sixty or seventy feet in height, This I at once
took to be a moraine, In climbing to the top of it I was struck with the steepness of its slope with its raw, unsettled plantless
new- born appearance. The slightest touch started blocks of red black slate followed by a rattling train of smaller stones,
sand a cloud of the dry dust of mud, the whole moraine being as free from lichens weather- stains as if dug from the mountain
that very day. When I had scrambled to the top of the Moraine I saw what seemed to be a huge snowbank four or five hundred
underlined: yds in length by half a mile in width. Imbedded in its stained 7 furrowed surface were deleted: rocks stones
dirt like that of wh the Moraine was built, Dirt- Stained lines curved across the D snow bank from side to side, when I observed
that there curved lines coincided with the curved Moraine, that the stones dirt were most abundant near the bottom of the
bank, I shouted - A living glacier These bent dirt lines show that the ice is flowing in its different parts with unequal
velocity, these imbedded stones are journeying down to be built into the moraine they gradually become more abundant as they
approach the moraine because there the motion is slower. On traversing my new found glacier I came to a crevasse down a wide
jagged portion