toffee-like

Updated: June 18, 2025

Where the parts do not fit closely there is, of course, open water, which freezes over, in a few hours after giving off volumes of "frost-smoke." In obedience to renewed pressure this young ice "rafts," so forming double thicknesses of a toffee-like consistency.

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton - South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition