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The rocks _in situ_ on the floor of the valley are all _moutonneed_ and polished on the top, sides, and face looking up the valley, but are rugged on that looking down it: gigantic blocks are poised on some.
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It dips suddenly below this, and some gneiss rocks that rise in its centre are remarkably _moutonneed_ or rounded, and have boulders perched on their summits.
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(alt. 12,590 feet), where there is another stone hut, the mountains become bleak, bare, and stony, and the rocks are all moutonneed by ancient glaciers.
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* [I have repeatedly, and equally in vain, sought for scratchings on many of the most conspicuously moutonneed gneiss rocks of Switzerland.
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