[Line 92:  The twofold garments are the glorified spirit and the glorified body.]

[Line 95:  St. John, in the Apocalypse, vii. 9.  “A great multitude which no man could number ... clothed with white robes.”]

[Line 99:  Dances and songs commingled; the circling choirs, the celestial choristers.]

[Line 100:  St. John the Evangelist.]

[Line 102:  In winter the constellation Cancer rises at sunset; and if it had one star as bright as this, it would turn night into day.]

[Line 105:  Such as vanity, ostentation, or the like.]

[Line 107:  St. Peter and St. James are joined by St. John.]

[Line 114:  Christ.  “Then saith he to the disciple, ‘Behold thy mother!’ And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.”  St. John, xix. 27.]

[Line 122:  St. John.]

[Line 124:  “If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee.”]

[Line 127:  Till the predestined number of the elect is complete.]

[Line 128:  The two garments:  the glorified spirit and the glorified body.]

[Line 129:  The two lights:  Christ and the Virgin Mary.]

[Line 130:  Carry back these tidings.]

[Line 133:  The sacred trio of St. Peter, St. James, and St. John.]

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EXTERNAL APPEARANCE OF GLACIERS.

Thus far we have examined chiefly the internal structure of the glacier; let us look now at its external appearance, and at the variety of curious phenomena connected with the deposit of foreign materials upon its surface, some of which seem quite inexplicable at first sight.  Among the most striking of these are the large boulders elevated on columns of ice, standing sometimes ten feet or more above the level of the glacier, and the sand-pyramids, those conical hills of sand which occur not infrequently on all the large Alpine glaciers.  One is at first quite at a loss to explain the presence of these pyramids in the midst of a frozen ice-field, and yet it has a very simple cause.

I have spoken of the many little rills arising on the surface of the ice in consequence of its melting.  Indeed, the voice of the waters is rarely still on the glacier during the warm season, except at night.  On a summer’s day, a thousand streams are born before noontide, and die again at sunset; it is no uncommon thing to see a full cascade come rushing out from the lower end of a glacier during the heat of the day, and vanish again at its decline.  Suppose one of these rivulets should fall into a deep, circular hole, such as often occur on the glacier, and the nature of which I shall presently explain, and that this cylindrical opening narrows to a mere crack at a greater or less depth within the ice, the water will find its way through the crack and filter down into the deeper mass; but the dust and sand carried along with it will be caught there, and form a deposit