Crossword-Solution: ROCHES 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Furthermore, the horizontal sections of separate mountains, standing isolated in the great valleys, are lens-shaped like those of mere rocks that rise in the channels of ordinary cañon glaciers, and which have been overflowed or pastflowed, while in many of the smaller valleys _roches moutonnées_ occur in great abundance.

The rock islets that rise here and there, forming so marked a feature of the harbor, are unchanged _roches moutonnées_, and the shores are grooved, scratched, and rounded, and in every way as glacial in all their characteristics as those of a newborn glacial lake.

Peter de Roches, whom King John had made Bishop of Winchester, was entrusted with the care of the person of the young sovereign; and the exercise of the Royal authority was confided to Earl Hubert de Burgh.

When the young King was declared of age, Peter de Roches, finding that Hubert increased in power and favour, retired discontentedly, and went abroad.

Such rocks as these are called in Switzerland "roches moutonnees," because they are, people fancy, like sheep's backs.