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Rh have done had they been transported by floating ice, but continue to keep to the side to which they belonged, assuming

that they once formed part of a right lateral moraine of a great extinct glacier. That glacier, after arriving at the lower end of the long narrow valley of the upper Rhone at, filled the lake of Geneva, , with ice. From, as from a great vomitory, it then radiated in all directions, bearing along with it the moraines with which it was loaded, and spreading them out on all sides over the great plain. But