 ... depth ; and four yards further back, the same substance occurred at twenty-two inches' depth. ' This glacial facing we afterwards noticed in several parts of the sound ; and it appears to me to be occasioned either by the snow being banked up against...  Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections - Page 701907Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1831 - 572 pages
...summer by partial thawings and freezings — or by the constant flow of water during the summer over the the edges of the cliffs, on which the sun's rays operate...down the still frozen surface of the cliffs, or after they reach the earth at their base, in which case the ice rises like a stalagmite, and in time reaches... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1831 - 570 pages
...summer by partial thawings and freezings — or by the constant flow of water during the summer over the the edges of the cliffs, on which the sun's rays operate...parts, in consequence of their aspect. The streams thus hecome converted into ice, either while trickling down the still frozen surface of the cliffs, or after... | |
 | 1832 - 672 pages
...winter, and converted into ice in the summer by partial thawings and freezings—or by the constant How of water during the summer over the edges of the cliffs,...down the still frozen surface of the cliffs, or after they reach the earth at their base, in which case the ice rises like a stalagmite, and in time reaches... | |
 | 1832 - 666 pages
...winter, and converted into ice in the summer by partial thawings and freezings — or by the constant How of water during the summer over the edges of the cliffs,...while trickling down the still frozen surface of the cliff«, or after they reach the earth at their base, in which case the ice rises like a stalagmite,... | |
 | 1831 - 602 pages
...coating of ice. The following clear statement sets the matter at rest for ever : — ' Mr. Collie, on cutting through the ice in a horizontal direction,...down the still frozen surface of the cliffs, or after they reach the earth at their base, in which case the ice rises like a stalagmite, and in time reaches... | |
 | Berthold Seemann - 1853 - 340 pages
...depth*. " ' This glacial facing we afterwards noticed in several parts of the Sound, and it appears to be occasioned either by the snow being banked up...parts in consequence of their aspect. The streams thus became converted into ice, either in trickling down the still frozen surface of the cliffs, or after... | |
 | 1854 - 408 pages
...inches' depth. This glacial facing we afterwards noticed in several parts of the Sound, and it appears to be occasioned either by the snow being banked up...The streams thus become converted into ice, either in trickling down the still frozen surface of the cliffs, or after they reach the earth at their base,... | |
 | 1854 - 404 pages
...inches' depth. This glacial facing we afterwards noticed in several parts of the Sound, and it appears to be occasioned either by the snow being banked up...The streams thus become converted into ice, either in trickling down the still frozen surface of the cliffs, or after they reach the earth at their base,... | |
 | 1832 - 672 pages
...occurred at twenty-two inches' depth. " This glacial facing we afterwards noticed in several parti of the sound ; and it appears to me to be occasioned...summer over the edges of the cliffs, on which the sun's lays operate less forcibly than on other parts, in consequence of their aspect. The streams thus become... | |
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