He declined to explain how it was that we found it so evidently in a state of general thaw in the very height of its season.

To give us some idea of the climate of the plain in winter, he informed us that the snow lay for long up to the top of the door of his chalet.
There were in all four columns of ice in the cave, only two of which were of any considerable size.

One of these was peculiarly striking from the very large grain which its structure displayed; it measured 19 feet across the base, being flat towards the extremity of the cave, and round towards the entrance.

Three thermometers in various parts of the glaciere gave all the same temperature, namely, a fraction under 33 deg.

F.: a rough French thermometer gave 1/2 deg.