A Lecture on Switzerland (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Love of Nature, 1. - But Knowledge must be added, 3. - Size of Switzerland, 4. A Thousand Miles of Ice, 5. First View of a Mountain, 6.-comparative Heights of Mountains, 7. - Dazzling Whiteness of the Snow, 8. - The Snow not everlasting, 9.-ava lanches, lo.-the P'dn Wind, l2. - Glaciers, l4. - How Snow is turned into Ice, l5. Two Million Tons Weight of Ice, 16. - The Ice presses forward, 17. - Crevasses, 18. - Accidents from Cre vesses, 19. - Crevasses hidden by Snow, 20. - Beauty of the Crevasses, 21. - Caverns of Ice, 22. - Nevé or Firn, 23. - Evi dence of Motion, 24. - Lateral Moraines, 25. Cause of Motion, 26. - Bed of the Glacier must be smooth, 27. - Theories of Cause of Motion, 28. - Expansion and Contraction, 29. - Vis cons Theory, 30. The ice-sea passes through a Gorge, 31. - The Ice bends, 32. - Regelation Theory, 34. - Glacier an imperfect Fluid, Viscosity and Regelation, 37. - Veined Structure, 38. - Pressure produces Cleavability, 39. Dirt Bands, 40. -featmes of Glacier Life, 41. Slate sinks into the Glacier, 42. Ice Tables and Sand Heaps, 43. - The Moraines all out ward Show, 44. Stone Avalanches, 45. - Increase of Glaciers, 46. - Disappearance of Glaciers, 47. Evidence of Glacial Action, 48. - Professor Forbes' Comparison, 49.

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