unfavourable circumstances, in dark caves lighted by one, or sometimes
by two candles, with a temperature varying from slightly above to
slightly below the freezing-point, and with no surer foot-hold than that
afforded by slippery slopes of ice and chaotic blocks of stone. In all
cases, errors are due to want of skill, not of honesty; and I hope that
they do not generally lie on the side of exaggeration.

CAMBRIDGE: _June_ 1865.




CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. PAGE

THE GLACIÈRE OF LA GENOLLIÈRE, IN THE JURA .............1

CHAPTER II.

THE GLACIÈRE OF S. GEORGES, IN THE JURA ................19

CHAPTER III.

THE LOWER GLACIÈRE OF THE PRÉ DE S. LIVRES, IN
THE JURA ...............................................32

CHAPTER IV.

THE UPPER GLACIÈRE OF THE PRÉ DE S. LIVRES .............46