An illustration almost as good, and equally accessible, is furnished by the Glacier of the Rhone. I have examined the grand cascade of this glacier from both sides; and an ordinary mountaineer will find little difficulty in reaching a point from which the fall and the terminal portion of the glacier are both distinctly visible. Here also he will find the cliffy ridges separated from each other by transverse chasms, becoming more and more subdued at the bottom of the fall, and disappearing entirely lower down the glacier. As in the case of the Grindelwald Glacier the squeezing of the protuberances and of the spaces between them, is quite apparent, and where this squeezing commences the transverse structure makes its appearance. All the ice that forms the lower portion of this glacier has to pass through the _structure-mill_ at the bottom of the fall, and the consequence is that _it is all laminated_. [Sidenote: STRUCTURE OF RHONE GLACIER.] [Illustration: Fig. 41. Plan of part of ice-fall, and of glacier below it (Glacier of the Rhone).] [Illustration: Fig. 42. Section of part of ice-fall, and of glacier below it (Glacier of the Rhone).] [Sidenote: TRANSVERSE STRUCTURE.] This case of structural development will be better appreciated on reference to Figs. 41 and 42, the former of which is a plan, and the latter a section, of a part of the ice-fall and of the glacier below it; _a b e f_ is the gorge of the fall, _f b_ being the base. The transverse cliffy ice-ridges are shown crossing the cascade, being subdued at the base to protuberances which gradually disappear as they advance downwards. The structure sweeps over the glacier in the direction of the fine curved lines; and I have also endeavoured to show the direction of the radial crevasses, which, in the centre at least, are at right angles to the veins. To the manifestation of structure here considered I have, for the sake of convenient reference, applied the term _transverse structure_.