The memorandum is lost of their register--if, indeed, we ever made one, for we were more concerned with the beauties than the temperature was surprisingly high in the line of current, as compared with the ordinary temperature of ice-caves.
When we came to compare backs, after leaving the cave, we mutually found that they were in a very disreputable condition.

The damp and ragged roof with which they had been so frequently in contact had produced a marked effect upon them, and I eventually paid a tailor in Geneva three francs for restoring my coat to decency.

M.took great credit to herself for having been more careful of her back than the others, and declined to be laughed at for forgetting that she was only about half as high as they, to begin with.

A.still remembers the green-grey stains, as the most obstinate she ever had to deal with, especially as her three-days' knapsack contained no change for that outer part of her dress.
The 'Ecu' gave us a charming dinner on our return; then a moderate bill, and an affectionate farewell; and we succeeded in catching the early evening train for Pontarlier.[53] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 48: _Aigue_, or _egue_, in the patois of this district, is equivalent to _eau_, the Latin _aqua_.] [Footnote 49: Ebel, in his _Swiss Manual_ (French translation of 1818, t.

iii.), mentions this glaciere under the head _Motiers_, and observes that it and the grotto of S.Georges are the only places in the Jura where ice remains through the summer.