On “Seter,” or Parallel Roads

Abstract

I SEE to my great vexation that in my former letter on parallel roads (NATURE, January 21, p. 268) I have made a rather hideous blunder in my English to the great disadvantage of the clearness of my theory. I have used the French-German-Norwegian term “rest” as signifying le reste. My theory is that the last “rest,” i.e. residue, of the inland ice formed a great dam somewhat seaward from the watershed; I do not refer to any “rests,” i.e. reposes, in the great ablation.