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At the end of that time he unshipped his sculls, took in his rowlocks, fitted his sculling-oar into its muffled aperture, and getting himself comfortably settled, grasped his oar with his left hand, and with his eyes just peering over the gunwale, let the light boat drift with the returning tide, and its fantastic burden of water-worn congelations.
Then they attached a bottle to a cord and sent it down two hundred feet, but it found no bottom. It came up covered with congelations evidence enough that even if the poor porter reached the bottom with unbroken bones, a swift death from cold was sure, anyway. A glacier is a stupendous, ever-progressing, resistless plow.
Then they attached a bottle to a cord and sent it down two hundred feet, but it found no bottom. It came up covered with congelations evidence enough that even if the poor porter reached the bottom with unbroken bones, a swift death from cold was sure, anyway. A glacier is a stupendous, ever-progressing, resistless plow.
"A horrible sight a horrible, horrible sight crushed, flattened a caricature; the very gouts of blood that had burst from him held poised in the massed congelations of water. "For how long ages had he been travelling to the valley, and from what heights?
Over this, as upon the roof and back of the cave, had gathered groups of those beautiful congelations to be found only on newly-formed ice, and in seasons of intense cold.
The grains of gray salt which are formed from sea water affect the figure, or at least the angle, of the cube; and in the congelations of other salts, and in that of sugar, there are found other solid angles with perfectly flat faces. Small snowflakes almost always fall in little stars with 6 points, and sometimes in hexagons with straight sides.
The declivities from the mountains and all the heights must suffer from the frequent and heavy falls of water and its descent to the valleys, as also from the deep congelations during our severe winters.
Among them were to be noticed many minute patterns of the most delicate star-crystals, and the surface of the floor was nearly covered with congelations of the purest white, resembling in shape, size, and beauty the leaf of the moss-rose.
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