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We enter upon the glacier; black chasms yawn here and there through the superincumbent snow, but there is no real difficulty.
There is a passive cruelty in the aspect of these chasms sufficient to make the blood run cold.
The snow bosses were soon broken by chasms deep and dark, which required tortuous winding on our part to get round them.
It is not uncommon to meet chasms of considerable depth produced by small streams the beds of which are dry for a large portion of the year.
Right and left of the larger gorges such secondary chasms are usually to be found.
Wishing to explore the slopes of the Col du Géant, not for the purpose of crossing into Piedmont, but to examine the fine ice-sections which it exhibits, and to trace amid its chasms the gradual conversion of the snow into ice, I at first thought of attempting the ascent of the col alone; but ‘le petit Balmat,’ as my host at the Montanvert always named him, acquitted himself so well on the occasion referred to that I thought he would make a suitable companion.
At the[327] summit it is broken into transverse chasms of enormous width and depth; the ridges between these break across again, and form those castellated masses to which the name of séracs has been applied.
The confusion of ice-pinnacles, crags, and chasms was very bewildering.
At some places forces of extreme complexity had acted on the mass; the ridges were broken into columns, and some of these were twisted half round; while the chasms were cut up into shafts which resembled gigantic honeycombs.
The extremities of the chasms ran parallel to each other for some distance, one being separated from the other, throughout this distance, by a wall of incipient ice, coped at the top by snow.
’ They wear the aspect of hostility undisguised; but these chasms of the névé are typified by the treachery of the moral world, hiding themselves under shining coverlets of snow, and compassing their ends by dissimulation.
Once or twice, while standing on the summit of a peak of ice, and looking at the pits and chasms beneath me, at the distance through which we had hewn our way, and at the work still to be accomplished, I experienced an incipient flush of terror.
Descending from the Jardin, as the ice approaches the fall, great transverse chasms are formed, which at length follow each other so speedily as to reduce the ice-masses between them to mere plates and wedges, along which the explorer has to creep cautiously.
Johnson told the story:"In the scale of being, wherever it begins,Or ends, there are chasms infinitely deep,Infinite vacuities .
Incense ascends unto heaven, Oxen, bulls, fowls are burnt! Nile makes for himself chasms in the Thebaid, Unknown is his name in heaven, He doth not manifest his forms! Vain are all representations! Mortals extol him, and the cycle of gods! Awe is felt by the terrible ones, His son is made Lord of all, To enlighten all Egypt.
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