C.The extreme wall of the cavern was completely covered by a layer of stalagmitic material, and some of the forms the substance assumed were sufficiently striking.

In contact with the wall, though standing clear of it in parts where the wall fell inwards, stood a thick round column of the same material, shaped like the ordinary ice-columns of the glacieres, with a cavity near the base, and in all ways following the usual laws of such columns.

Considering that I had observed a layer of limestone-paste collecting on one of the ice-columns of the Glaciere of La Genolliere, I could not help imagining that this stalagmitic column had been originally moulded on a norm of that description.

It had a girth of 12 feet in the part where we were able to pass the tape round it.

Its surface was smooth; but when we drove a hole through this, with much damage to the _pic_ of my axe, we found that the interior was in a crystalline form.
There was, on the whole, very little to be seen in the glaciere.