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wherever a similar configuration occurs below the
snow-line; but the snow would not merely find its
level in these basin hollows, it would heap beyond
and around them, and fill up the communicating
avenues between; thus forming a great table-land
of snow out of or around which the rock peaks
would arise.
This is what we find in the Alps, where it is
called the nevé. Such is Mont Blanc, which
appears like a single rounded camel-back mountain;
but I have no doubt that its actual structure is a
bunch of ragged granite peaks, like the ‘Aiguilles’
near to it: and that the spaces between these
acute pyramids, from their bases up to the verge
of their summits, and even above the summits of
some of the less elevated, are filled with
consolidated snow, reaching in some parts to thousands
of feet in depth. The Mont Blanc de Tacul, the
Rochers Rouges, the Grands and Petits Mulets, &c.,
which stand like rocky islands amidst the vast
plains and slopes of snow, are but the summits of
these tall, acute pyramids, thus buried neck deep.
This nevé or table-land of consolidated snow is more
fully displayed in Norway than in the Alps. It is
known as “fond” or “sneefond,” as the Folgefond,
the Justedal sneefond, the Fondalen, &c., which
are great rolling fjelds or table-lands deeply buried
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