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along the whole line of this coast, but which was
invisible when seen by the same eyes in 1856.
All the hills, not exceeding the height above
named, are hog-backed or pudding-shaped, with
warty lumps where once were angular peaks, and
with wavy ridges in the place of primeval craggy
ledges and terraces. The technical name for such
rounded rocks is roches moutonnes, from their
resemblance to the backs of sheep. But these
curved outlines are broken in various minor
degrees by modern weathering, or by the sawing
of modern torrents and their companion pebbles.
Besides this rounding, which is so universal as
to determine the general characteristic aspect of
the country, there is another very marked physical
feature, which not only escaped my observation in
1856, but, so far as I can learn, has remained
equally unnoticed by anybody else, although it is
extremely interesting: and instructive, as affording
an elegant and independent evidence of the
existence and long duration of a subsequent glacial
epoch much milder than that which overswept the
whole country and rounded so effectually its
mainland and insular rocks.
These are little flat-bottomed valleys or slopes,
occupying nearly all the main hollows between,
the larger of the lumpy hills, and coming down
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