832 EXPORTS.
as many of other grain. But the principal
exports are cattle, and mules bred upon the
mountains, with hides, cheese, and barrelled
butter. A great number of the cattle
are sent into Piedmont or to Geneva.
Twenty-five thousand head of cattle are
sold annually to the butchers of Turin.
AVeie due encouragement given to agriculture,
and a free market opened. Savoy
might supply four times the quantity of its
present amount of produce.
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CHAP. IX.
A N N E C Y T O T H E B A T H S O F S A I N T G E R V A I S E . - - - -
D E S C R I P T I O N O F T H E B A T H S . O B S E R V A T I O N S
O N T H E N U M E R O U S T H E R M A L S P R I N G S I N T H E
C E N T R A L R A N G E O F T H E A L P S . T H E I R G E O L
O G I C A L P O S I T I O N . - - - - I N F E R E N C E S . M O U N T
A I N S N E A R S E R V O S . — P R O G R E S S I V E M O V E M E N T
O F T H E G L A C I E R S . - - - - A R R I V A L A T C H A M O U N Y .
T h e valley of Chamouny has been so frequently
described, and a part of its geology
has been so fully examined by Saussure,
that I shall principally confine my remarks
to those facts which are less known, and
which open new views respecting the secondary
strata in this part of Savoy. I
shall also have to call in question the generally
received opinion, respecting the great
relative antiquity of nearly all the strata
covering the granitic rocks of the Pennine
Alps.
The river Arve, which rises on the western
foot of the Col de Balme, one of the
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