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with the advantage of walking versus driving.
Hitherto my pupils had not seen any good
examples of glacier striation. I had just glimpsed
several in driving past, and these were lost to the
ladies, who were driving on separately. Now in
the course of our walk over just the same kind
of road, I was able to point out abundant ex- .
amples of regular groovings. They may be seen
hereabouts, especially on the new roads, wherever
the deposit of vegetation has been stripped from
the rock by the road makers. These patches show
that the walls of all these narrow valleys have
been ground, polished, and scratched in lines
corresponding to the course of the valley, and the
groovings and strise in many places appear as
fresh as though but of last }7ear’s engraving.
Besides these grooves in situ, other striations may
be seen upon the flat slabs that form the barriers
wherever the road edges upon a precipice. The
rock being of slaty fracture, many of these slabs
have been peeled from the surface by blasting, and
tell their own history by the marks the}7 bear.
All this was lost to the drivers, and more besides,
for the necessity of attending to one’s horse
con-ceals a great deal. This, in my estimation, is the
worst disadvantage of carriole driving. To those,
however, who merely travel for fresh air and
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