Further examination taught me that the glacier here is crumpled in a most singular manner; doubtless by the great pressure to which it is exposed. The following illustration will convey a notion of its aspect: Let one hand be laid flat upon a table, palm downwards, and let the fingers be bent until the space between the first joint and the ends of the fingers is vertical; one of the crumples to which I refer will then be represented. The ice seems bent like the fingers, and the crumples of the glacier are cut by crevasses, which are accurately typified by the spaces between the fingers. Let the second hand now be placed upon the first, as the latter is upon the table, so that the tops of the bent fingers of the second hand shall rest upon the roots of the first: two crumples would thus be formed; a series of such protuberances, with steep fronts, follow each other from the base of the Talefre cascade for some distance downwards. On Saturday the 1st of August I ascended these rounded terraces in succession, and observed among them an extremely remarkable disposition of the structure. Fig. 58 is a section of a series of three of the crumples, on which the shading lines represent the direction of the blue veins. At the base of each protuberance I found a seam of white ice wedged firmly into the glacier, and _each of the seams marked a place of dislocation of the veins_. The white seams thinned off gradually, and finally vanished where the violent crumpling of the ice disappeared. In Fig. 59 I have sketched the wall of a crevasse, which represents what may be regarded as the incipient crumpling. The undulating line shows the contour of the surface, and the shading lines the veins. It will be observed that the direction of the veins yields in conformity with the undulation of the surface; and an augmentation of the effect would evidently result in the crumples shown in Fig. 58. The appearance of the white seams at those places where a dislocation occurred was, as far as I could observe, invariable; but in a few instances the seams were observed upon the platforms of the terraces, and also upon their slopes. The width of a seam was very irregular, varying from a few inches at some places to three or four feet at others. [Sidenote: CRUMPLES OF THE TALEFRE.] [Illustration: Fig. 58. Section of three glacier Crumples.] [Illustration: Fig. 59. Wall of a crevasse, with incipient crumpling.] [Sidenote: MOULDS OF WHITE ICE-SEAMS.]