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0260 Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000297
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up to the heaps, I found that they were masses
of solid ice, merely covered over on the surface
with a thin layer of this rocky débris, which
served to conceal the surface of the ice im-
mediately beneath. And my dismay can be
imagined when, on ascending one of the highest
of the mounds, I found that they were but the
end of a series which extended without inter-
ruption for many miles up the valley to the
snows at the foot of the pass. We were, in
fact, at the extremity of an immense glacier.
This was the first time I had actually stood on
a glacier, and I had never realised till now how
huge and continuous a mass of ice it is. Here
and there, breaking through the mounds of
stone, I had seen cliffs of what I thought was
black rock, but on coming close up to these
found them to be nothing but solid dark green
ice. I discovered caverns, too, with transparent
walls of clear, clean ice, and long, tapering
icicles hanging in delicate fringes from the roof.
It was an astonishing and wonderful sight; but
I was destined to see yet more marvellous
scenes than this in the icy region upon which
I was now entering.
To take a caravan of ponies up a glacier like