Their prejudices, however, were invincible, and they
persisted in their belief that a true glaciere ought to have no ice in
it in the winter. M. Thury did not enquire from what source they drew
their ideas of a true glaciere.
There is a book, in three volumes, on the 'Glacieres of the Alps,' by M.
Bourrit, dedicated to Buffon, in which is a description of the Valley of
Reposoir; but no mention whatever is made of the _grand' cave_. Indeed,
M. Bourrit merely meant by _glaciere_, a glacial district, something
more extensive than a _glacier_, and he had evidently no knowledge of
the existence of caves containing ice.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 77: Premiere Serie, t. xx. pp. 261, &c.]
[Footnote 78: Less than 1/2 deg. C., he says.]
[Footnote 79: _Bibl. Univ. de Geneve_, Premiere Serie, t. xxv. pp. 224,
&c.]
[Footnote: 80: _Bibl. Univ_. l.c.]
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CHAPTER XIII.
LA BORNA DE LA GLACE, IN THE DUCHY OF AOSTA.
The Chanoine Carrel, of Aosta, whose name is so well and so favourably
known to Alpine men, sent a brief account of an ice-cave in his
neighbourhood to the _Bibliotheque Universelle_ of Geneva[81] in the
year 1841, and, as far as I know, there is no other account of it.
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