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Updated: June 11, 2025
The changed structure and position of the strata, now exemplified from the observations both of M. de Saussure and M. de Luc, observations made in a great extent from France to Germany, show the effects without the means by which those effects had been produced; and, in this case, it is by judging from certain principles of natural philosophy that the cause is discovered in the effect.
"Which you have entirely disarranged, Daisy," she said as she moved herself. "Daisy will acknowledge I had liberty," Mr. De Saussure repeated. "Mamma," I said, "don't you think it is growing chill?" "Row us home, Charles," said my mother. "And, Daisy, don't be a fool. Mr. De Saussure had liberty, as he says." "I do not acknowledge it, ma'am."
It is something too far beyond me; it is unlike me; it seems to belong to another stage of being, while I am held fast in this. It mocks me, somehow." "It does not do so with me," I said. "Ah, it is your world!" De Saussure said, laughing. "It could not do so with you very well." "But look at Mont Pilatte now," resumed Mr.
Every characteristic feature, known in the Alps as the work of the glaciers, was not only easily recognizable here, but as perfectly preserved as anywhere in Switzerland. The rounded knolls to which De Saussure first gave the name of roches moutonnees were smoothed, polished, scratched, and grooved in the direction of the ice movement, the marks running mostly from south to north, or nearly so.
SAUSSURE. A ring-plain W. of Tycho, 28 miles in diameter, with bright lofty terraced walls and a somewhat dark interior, on which there is a crater, W. of the centre, and some crater-pits. There are several large depressions on the S.W. wall.
He there attended to the cultivated patches which the aridity of the soil and the burning sun dispute with the rocks. In his leisure he studied natural sciences, and kept up a correspondence with two Swiss, whose systems of physics then occupied the learned world M. de Saussure and Marat.
One of the De Saussure family, who was in Mexico a few years back, describes Jorullo as consisting of three terraces of basaltic lava, which have flowed one above another from a central orifice, the whole being surmounted by a cone of lapilli thrown up from the same opening, from which also later streams of lava have issued. The celebrated cascade of Regla is just behind the hacienda.
Kemper told me the manner in which Saussure made the ascent. A party of guides going up from Chamouni, one of them by some means was far ahead of the others, when suddenly darkness enveloped him. Cut off from his companions, he was obliged to pass the night at the immense elevation of twelve thousand feet above the level of the sea.
Dale inquired what "light books" he was taking to Oxford: "Saussure, Humboldt, and other works on natural philosophy and geology," he answered. "Then he asked if I ever read any of the modern fashionable novels; on this point I thought he began to look positive, so I gave him a negative, with the exception of Bulwer's, and now and then a laughable one of the Theodore Hook's or Captain Marryat's."
It is impossible to see this series of pyramidal relics, without at the same time perceiving that manner of formation, by the gradual resolution of the solid mass of granite, as it comes to be exposed in succession to the influences of the atmosphere, which M. de Saussure has termed les ravage du temps.
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