In the glacier period it was a mer de glace, far grander than the mer de glace of Switzerland, which is only about half a mile broad.
The Tenaya mer de glacewas not less than two miles broad, late in the glacier epoch, when all the principal dividing crests were bare; and its depth was not less than fifteen hundred feet.
The marquise divined in a single glace the whole weight of the unhappiness of the superintendent.
His smile immediately faded away, and his glace became cold and sharp as a sword.
When taken from the oven, sprinkle the top of each with moist sugar if desired, or glace by brushing with milk while baking.
The correct street wear in the morning in the winter is a tailored suit with medium sized hat in felt or beaver, walking shoes, and rather heavy gloves in glace kid.
Spun sugar makes a beautiful decoration for ice creams, glace fruits and other cold desserts.
Flegere, a height on the spur of one of the mountains, commanding a fine view of the Mer de Glace and Glacier des Bois, which are directly opposite.
And I shall wear white glace with pinked flounces, instead of tulle puffings, you sly Linda," cried Letitia.
Arsenic sulphide (realgar) is slaked with the lime for the production of the finer light leathers, such as glacekid and glove kid.
The grain is rather too bold for glace work, for which the sheep is largely used.
Drain on piece of paper, fill centers with apricot jam, cut out some rounds of red currant jelly, place 1 on top of each apple and a glace cherry on that.
In the upper portions of the Mer de Glace these veins sweep across the glacier in gentle curves, leaning forward--to which leaning forward Prof.
The inclinations of the Mer de Glace and its three tributaries were, moreover, taken, and the association of transverse crevasses with the changes of inclination were accurately noted.
Having fixed my head-quarters at the Montanvert, I was engaged for nearly six weeks during the summer of 1857 in making observations on the Mer de Glace and its tributaries.
In fact, the shadows were no longer grey merely, but black; to a similar augmentation of contrast towards the close of the day is to be referred the fact that the 'Dirt Bands' of the Mer de Glace are best seen by twilight.
I rested for half an hour in our grotto at the Tacul, and afterwards struggled lamely along the Mer de Glace home to the Montanvert.
These shafts constitute the so-called moulins of the glacier, examples of which are shown upon the Mer de Glace to every tourist who visits the Jardin from Chamouni.
The law established by Forbes and Agassiz, that the central portions of a glacier moved faster than the sides, was amply illustrated and confirmed by the deportment of lines of stakes placed across the Mer de Glace and its tributaries in 1857.
Every traveller knows the utter dislocation and confusion produced by the descent of the Mer de Glace from the Chapeau downwards.
The same year I visited the Mer deGlace and its tributaries, and found the pressure key applicable to their phenomena also.
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Choosing, therefore, a favourable place for observation on the Mer de Glace where the ice emerged from a gorge, he found a perpendicular side about one hundred and fifty feet in height from bottom to top.
In 1857 Professor Tyndall began his systematic and fruitful observations upon the Mer de Glace and other Alpine glaciers.
As a result of Tyndall's observations, it was found that the most rapid daily motion in the Mer de Glace in 1857 was about thirty-seven inches.
