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Not in Switzerland itself do we find clearer traces of ancient glacier action.
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Early next morning I set out to trace the ancient glacier to its head.
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The Cedars of Lebanon, says Hooker, are growing upon one of the moraines of an ancient glacier.
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He came to this country in 1840, and found in various places indubitable marks of ancient glacier action.
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The cedar of Lebanon, said Sir Joseph Hooker, occurs upon one of the moraines of an ancient glacier.
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They have in great part resisted its action since the retreat of the ancient glacier which formed the moraine.
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After the retreat of the ancient glacier, a transverse ridge of comparatively resisting material crossed the valley at this place.
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The vast incline of ancient glacier, rolling backwards and upwards in discolored waves from the precipitate opposite bank of Snake River.
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There were streams to be forded and ancient glacier tracks to circumvent and pale stone ruins where the horses feared to tread.
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Professor Tyndall asserts that the ancient glaciers indicate the action of heat as much as cold.
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These lakes were sometimes dammed by barriers of rock, sometimes by the moraines of ancient glaciers.
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A certain number of weeks the land smiles and flaunts gay flowers in the shadow of the ancient glaciers.
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Our horses fatigued easily in passing this moraine that had been strewn by ancient glaciers along the mountain sides.
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Visible for miles around, Berwick Law was a long-dead volcano, sculpted into a blunt arrowhead shape by ancient glaciers.
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He also described the "moraines" of the ancient glaciers, and the rounded masses of polished rock, called in Switzerland "roches moutonnees."
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12,590 feet), where there is another stone hut, the mountains become bleak, bare, and stony, and the rocks are all moutonneed by ancient glaciers.