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I HAVE just received, through Mr. Edward Stanford, Livraison iii., containing seven sheets of this great work, in which we have the maps of the British Isles, of Germany, Italy, Austro-Hungary and Greece. These maps exhibit a marvellous amount of care on the part of the Directors, and of elaborate execution on the part of Herr Dietrich Reimer and his staff. I do not venture to eulogise, much less to criticise the maps, but only to direct attention to one special point of interest which they exhibit, namely, the representation of the great terminal moraines on both sides of the Alps. It requires a little close scrutiny to discover the course of these great banks of glacier detritus laid down at the epoch of greatest cold of the Glacial Period; but once recognised, it amply repays attention to follow their course. They are represented by lines of purple dots, about three or four deep, lessening in size inwards; and, of course, passing disconnectedly over all the geological formations. On the north base of the Alps the moraine bank starts from above Grenoble, swelling northwards near to Lyon along the Rhône valley; then, retreating southwards, it winds along the flanks of the Jura above the plain of Geneva and Lake Neuchâtel; then passing by Berne and Zürich, stretches away northwards by Schaffhausen and Ravensburg, indicating the enormous extent of the old Rhein Glacier; and then curving outwards along the valleys descending from the eastern Alps by Munich and Salzburg, it is represented as surrounding the northern shore of the Traun See; but no further eastwards.
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HULL, E. Carte Géologique Internationale de l'Europe. Nature 59, 247 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/059247a0
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