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Alpen-Glätscher : Das Eismeer am Montavert
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Miscellanies. XLI. Vol. IV. No. 58., GLACIERS OF THE ALPS., The lake of ice on the Mount Montanvert., The Alps of Switzerland are the higheft élévation in the ancient world and contain the famous Mon:blanc which is the higheft point of the globe in Europe, Asia and Africa, and vvhofe élévation is only surpassed by the immen se Chimboraço in South-America., These Alps offer to our view on account of their particular situation the greatest beauties and most curions subjects in natural hiftory; they contain mountains which rear their lofty heads, overspread with ice, above the fkies. — Between these Mountains lakes, immenfe rocks, bottomless abyffes, Valleys and fields of ice varv with fources which J fwell to great rivers, and rivulets which falling down from the higheft rocks are diffolved into duft and difappear in the air; whilft v, :i!ies covered with verdure, fertile paftures and other won dors of natura border the great chain of these mountains., One of the most remarkable objects of the alps are the Glaciers., Glaciers are called the immenfe Valleys of ice which rest between the points of rocks; or those fields of ice which lay on the higheft mountains., One of the greatest and most remarkable glaciers is the lake of ice on the foot or Montanvert. It is a long valley quite filled up with ice; it may be overlooked from the height where the little hut is represented, and resembles a lake instantaneously frozen not i:x the midst of a violent storm but after the wind had ceafed and the waves loft their roughness. These waves ofice are interfectedby numerous large and deep transverse crevices, whofe infides look Mue and which are very dangerous to paffengers., On each side of these pointed rocks lesser glaciers rest and in the hind part of the picture we perceive the great Jurassis, which is one of the loftieft mountains of the alps and çntirely covered with fnow., The mountain itself on which in the fore part of the picture the society is represented is a very fertile alp which borders these tremendous ice-rocks.
