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and swept many miles along the fjord, destroying
all the boat-houses it encountered. Minor masses
frequently fall.
We saw several tracks of recent avalanches, two
of which had fallen during the last winter, and
one in the previous October. The latter destroyed
a boat-house and boat, and the others swept
curiously near to farm buildings ; one which we
passed at 6 p.m. was within twenty yards of -a
farm building. As a modern avalanche track is
likely to follow that of an ancient glacier, this
proximity is to be expected.
In using- the term “ avalanche ” I must make
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some explanation. The tracks we saw were not
caused by great accumulations of ice and snow
slipping down in a broad sheet, as so commonly
occurs in Switzerland, but were narrow stripes
down steep rock slopes, rendered visible b}’ the
sweeping away of the trees and all other
vegetation, leaving the bare surface of the rock
contrasting strongly with the verdure on each side. They
occur on the less precipitous rock faces, and where
the farms are lower down than that which I have
depicted. They are not mere snow avalanches,
but chiefly made up of trees and fragments of
rock; the denudation being due to the incline.
Had a piece of rock given way or a mass of snow
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