123 Since the above paragraphs were first printed, there has been some improvement in Dauphiné in respect to the inns; and there is now at La Ville de Val Louise a very decent little auberge called the Hôtel Pelvoux, kept by M. Gauthier. 124 Under the title of _Massif du Mont Blanc, extrait des minutes de la Carte de France, leré par M. Mieulet, Capitaine d’Etat Major_. 125 The heights (in mètres) are after Captain Mieulet. 126 Some of these heights have no business to figure in a list of the principal peaks of the chain, being nothing more than teeth or pinnacles in ridges, or portions of higher mountains. Such, for example, are the Aiguilles du Géant, du Dru, and de Bionnassay. 127 Besides Mont Blanc itself. 128 Previous to this we made an attempt to ascend the Aiguille d’Argentière, and were defeated by a violent wind when within a hundred feet of the summit. 129 Great crevasses. A bergschrund is a schrund, and something more. 130 The passage of the Col de Triolet from the Couvercle to Prè du Bar occupied 8½ hours of actual walking. If the pass had been taken in the contrary direction it would have consumed a much longer time. It gave a route shorter than any known at the time between Chamounix and the St. Bernard. As a pass I cannot conscientiously recommend it to any one (see Chap. XVII.), nor am I desirous to go again over the moraine on the left bank of the Glacier de Triolet, or the rocks of Mont Rouge. 131 The ascent of Mont Dolent and return to Prè du Bar (halts included) occupied less than 11 hours. 132 The bracketed paragraphs in this chapter are extracted from the notes of Mr. Reilly. 133 From a sketch by Mr. Adams-Reilly. 134 This glacier is named Glacier du Mont Blanc. 135 The Calotte is the name given to the dome of snow at the summit of Mont Blanc. 136 Glacier du Dôme. 137 This is without a name. 138 I do not know the origin of the term _moraine_. De Saussure says (vol. i. p. 380, § 536), “the peasants of Chamounix call these heaps of débris _the moraine_ of the glacier.” It may be inferred from this that the term was a local one, peculiar to Chamounix. 139 An example is referred to on p. 106. Much more remarkable cases might be instanced. 140 It is not usual to find small moraines to large glaciers fed by many branches draining many different basins. That is, if the branches are draining basins which are separated by mountain ridges, or which, at least, have islands of rock protruding through the ice. The small moraines contributed by one affluent are balanced, probably, by great ones brought by another feeder. _ 141 Atlas of Physical Geography_, by Augustus Petermann and the Rev. T. Milner. The italics are not in the original.