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neck, outside his jacket, and the watch and
appendages ostentatiously displayed. He was on his
way to Aak, where he assumed that we should
stop for the night at least, and was heartily enjoying
the finery in the meantime.
The ladies walked bravely on to Aak, where we
had arranged to halt, not only for the night but
for a rest on the day following.
The miniature glaciers were seen as before, and
the observations made in 1856 confirmed.
Without disputing the general conclusions respecting
the great extension of ancient glaciers, I still
believe that in many cases local avalanche tracks
and deposits have been confounded with glacier
paths and moraines. This, however, is merely a
matter of detail nowise affecting the great and
interesting geological generalizations that are based
on the glacial vestiges.
These miniature glaciers and avalanche heaps
are well displayed in the hollows between the
jagged peaks of the wild witch-crags, the
Troltin-derne, a magnificent group of dark complicated
pinnacles, the weathered skeleton of a riven
mountain. These peaks reach a height of above
6000 feet nearly opposite to the Romsdalshorn,
August l (‘Eh.—Spend the day in luxurious
repose at the Aak Hotel, finely situate at the mouth
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