Show glavies Glae ies ol 31 wiers grunge into the ses sea in many i mid Count countries lies and perish by drowning their dismembered rel remains agns floating away as bergs but bat th their air end isby is by dis solution where the annual mesi temperature rises considerably above the freezing point at some certain level they melt faster than they can flow and so terminate the level indeed is a fluctuating one Ael andic glaciers are now steadily advancing van cing swiss glaciers according tp tc M porel forel have under undergone omone daring the present century five alternating periods of diminution and growth theo the meteorological changes occasioning and emphasized by these oscillations are very slight their character eba acter however is unmistakable and such as might have been anticipated that is ta to say glacial de decre creise ise accompanies a 6 w warm arial and dry cycled cycle glacial increase one thal Is damp and cold without one additional degree of cold it is I 1 conceivable that a persistently augmented augi deposit of snow ulon the ger aten sten homer horner and the Schue estock although otherwise scarcely perceptible might enable the rhone glacier to over whelm brieg but this would be an axce exceedingly small step toward the restoration of a former state of things when w hen an lee ice miream dream close upon miles in length starting from the iame same source crossed the frozen or nonexistent lake of geneva and debouched debauched debou ched by culoz culiz upon lyons without severe cold as aswell well as heavy precipitation ice could not PO possibly a have gained so great an ascend aney ancy and this was waa t tua ns local phenomenon it I 1 was simultaneously prevalent over widely separated tracts of the i irtha surface edinburgh beliew ew |