late. Enough, however, is expressed to illustrate the points in
question.

Sec. 44. We have first, observe, a rounded bank, broken, at its edges, into
cleavages by inclined beds. I thought it would be well, lest the reader
should think I dwelt too much on this particular scene, to give an
instance of similar structure from another spot; and therefore I
daguerreotyped the cleavages of a slope of gneiss just above the Cascade
des Pelerins, Chamouni, corresponding in position to this bank of
Turner's. Plate +48+ (facing p. 303), copied by Mr. Armytage from the
daguerreotype, represents, necessarily in a quite unprejudiced and
impartial way, the structure at present in question; and the reader may
form a sufficient idea, from this plate, of the complexity of descending
curve and foliated rent, in even a small piece of mountain
foreground,[95] where the gneiss beds are tolerably continuous. But
Turner had to add to such general complexity the expression of a more
than ordinary undulation in the beds of the St. Gothard gneiss.

Sec. 45. If the reader will look back to Chapter II. Sec. 13, he will find it
stated that this scene is approached out of the defile of Dazio Grande,
of which the impression was still strong on Turner's mind, and where
only he could see, close at hand, the nature of the rocks in a good
section. It most luckily happens that De Saussure was interested by the
rocks at the same spot, and has given the following account of them,
Voyages, Sec.Sec. 1801, 1802:--

"A une lieue de Faido, l'on passe le Tesin pour le repasser bientot
apres [see the old bridge in Turner's view, carried away in mine], et
l'on trouve sur sa rive droite des couches d'une roche feuilletee, qui
montent du Cote du Nord.

"On voit clairement que depuis que les granits veines ont ete remplaces
par des pierres moins solides, tantot les rochers se sont eboules et ont
ete recouverts par la terre vegetale, tantot leur situation primitive a
subi des changements irreguliers.

"Sec. 1802. Mais bientot apres, _on monte par un chemin en corniche au
dessus du Tesin, qui se precipite entre des rochers avec la plus grande
violence_. Ces rochers sont la si serres, qu'il n'y a de place que pour
la riviere et pour le chemin, et meme en quelques endroits, celui-ci est
entierement pris sur le roc. Je fis a pied cette montee, pour examiner
avec soin ces beaux rochers, _dignes de toute l'attention d'un amateur_.

"Les veines de ce granit forment en pl