The hill itself had also the character of the "roches moutonnees" modeled by ice in the northern hemisphere.
The rounded knolls to which De Saussure first gave the name of roches moutonnees were smoothed, polished, scratched, and grooved in the direction of the ice movement, the marks running mostly from south to north, or nearly so.
Among the leading men of the day who built hospitals were Geoffrey Fitz-Peter and William Briwere, Peter des Roches and Hubert de Burgh, together with Hugh and Joceline of Wells.
No one could imagine, for instance, that Queen Maud and King John had a common motive in their charity to lepers; or that the bishops Wulstan and Peter des Roches were animated by the same impulse when they provided for the wants of wayfarers.
General Debschitz, approaching from the north, in passing Roches found only the abandoned camping ground of the French XXIVth Corps.
The massed German batteries were brought up to the southern ridge of the valley and soon drove the French off the broad flats; but the defile of Les Roches in the front remained quite unassailable.
This was more than the barons could bear; and they told Henry very plainly, through Edmund, the new Archbishop of Canterbury, that if Des Roches was not dismissed, the sovereign himself would be sent forthwith about his business.
It must, if any where, be by the rocks on the east; and they looked as if they were roches moutonnees.
On its western declivities are found a group of well-characterized moraines, canyons, and roches moutonnees, all of which are unmistakably fresh and telling.
In Wales and Scotland we may soon learn to recognise the roches moutonnees, the old moraine heaps, and the erratic boulders brought down by these old glaciers.
Hence the name roches moutonnees, by which rocks of this shape are known.
Various stone statues were added and an octagon pavilion on the Ile des Roches was restored and redecorated.
One of the islets is known as the Ile des Roches and contains the Grotte de Rabelais, so named in honour of the Curé of Meudon, when he was presented at Rambouillet by the Cardinal du Bellay.
The roches moutonnées about the Grimsel show that hills many hundred feet high have been passed over by the great glacier of the Aar, when it descended as far as Meyringen, without having seemingly influenced its onward progress.
I have observed many other roches moutonnées in Scotland, especially about the neighborhood of Loch Awe, Loch Fyne, and Loch Etive.
Besides their peculiar form, the roches moutonnées present all the characteristic features of glacier-action in their polished surfaces accompanied with the straight lines, grooves, and furrows above described.
The appearances about the roches moutonnées, especially the straight scratches and grooves on the side up which the ice ascended, have led to a mistaken view of the mode in which large boulders are transported by ice.
These roches moutonnées may very fairly be compared with those of the Grimsel, and exhibit all the characteristic features of the Alpine ones.
Among the inequalities of the glacier-worn surfaces which deserve especial notice, are the so-called "roches moutonnées.
As long as Peter des Roches ruled the king it would be hard to keep England for the English.
Peter des Roches replied saucily that there were no peers in England as in France, meaning that in England the barons had no rights against the king.
In fact, these low hills may be considered as a succession of roches moutonnees, trending in a continuous ridge from east to west, over which the masses of northern ice have moved unimpeded to the latitude of the Ohio.
But at this critical moment the Earl was drawn by an intrigue of Peter des Roches to Ireland; he fell in a petty skirmish, and the barons were left without a head.
A foreign party too had still a footing in the kingdom, for William Marshal had been unable to rid himself of men like Peter des Roches or Faukes de Breauté, who had fought on the royal side in the struggle against Lewis.
The return of Peter des Roches to the royal councils was the first sign of the new system; and hosts of hungry Poitevins and Bretons were summoned over to occupy the royal castles and fill the judicial and administrative posts about the Court.
From the Duchessa dell'Aquila Fulva, Roches Noires, Trouville, to the Principe di San Zenone, Coombe Bysset.
To protect and complete his new conquest, John began at once the siege of La Roche-au-Moine, a new castle built by William des Roches on the Loire, which commanded communications with the south.
In this way rocks and stones may sometimes be seen balanced in odd situations near the sea beach, simulating the "roches perchees" which are dropped by a melting iceberg or a receding glacier.
We cast anchor off the north-west side of Isle des Roches on the evening of the 25th of March, and stayed there for four days.
Isle des Roches is, moreover, peculiar in forming part of an atoll, most of which is submerged, and is covered with from two to five fathoms of water.
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