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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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fringes of these same dainty pendants. When I can free
my mind from the overpowering sense of grandeur which the
mountains produce, and from the thoughts of the stern,
hard work we had to go through in those parts, I think of
the beauty of that glacier scenery, the delicate transparency
of the walls of ice, the exquisite tinting of the blues and
greens upon it, the fairy caverns, the deep crevasses, and the
pinnacles of ice, as forming a spectacle unsurpassed in its
purity of loveliness. Other scenes are beautiful, and yet others
are impressive by their grandeur. The verdure-covered hills
and vales of England ; the clear, placid lakes of Switzerland ;
and rivers with their verges fringed with foliage, are beautiful ;
and the frowning precipices and bold, rugged peaks seen in
any mountain country are grand. But it is high up among the
loftiest mountain summits, where all is shrouded in unsullied
whiteness, where nothing polished dares pollute, that the
very essence of sublimity must be sought for. It is there
indeed that the grand and beautiful unite to form the sublime.
I called the glacier the Crevasse Glacier, on account of the
great number and size of the crevasses, which were wider, deeper,
and far more frequent than I have seen on any other glacier,
and this I attribute to the bends. The widest branch comes
from the south and makes a bend almost at right angles at
the furthest point we reached, and is here joined by a longer
but narrower branch from the pass. The length is about
twenty-four miles, and the breadth from a thousand to
twelve hundred yards. It ends at an elevation of thirteen
thousand feet above sea-level, at a projecting spur of black
rock, which is opposite to a stream issuing from a small glacier
running down from the second peak on the southern side.
Its lower extremity, for more than two miles, is entirely
covered with moraine, but higher up it presents the magnificent
spectacle of a sea of pure white peaks of ice, with numerous
similar glaciers of smaller size running down to it from the
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