The Frozen Stream: An Account of the Formation and Properties of Ice in Various Parts of the WorldSoc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1862 - 260 Seiten |
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... berg is sometimes so nicely balanced in the water , that if a large piece break off on one side , the whole mass will suddenly turn over , and stave or wreck the vessel , producing at the same time vast waves to a considerable distance ...
... berg is sometimes so nicely balanced in the water , that if a large piece break off on one side , the whole mass will suddenly turn over , and stave or wreck the vessel , producing at the same time vast waves to a considerable distance ...
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... berg being only one - seventh or one - eighth of the whole mass . The number and vastness of these bergs give us a grand idea of the polar seas , and of the extent of the glaciers , which open into them . Few persons competent to ...
... berg being only one - seventh or one - eighth of the whole mass . The number and vastness of these bergs give us a grand idea of the polar seas , and of the extent of the glaciers , which open into them . Few persons competent to ...
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... berg , and its sliding motion down . a space of 200 feet of glacier into the sea . " The piece , " he says , " that had been disengaged , at first wholly disappeared under water , and nothing was to be seen but a violent boiling of the ...
... berg , and its sliding motion down . a space of 200 feet of glacier into the sea . " The piece , " he says , " that had been disengaged , at first wholly disappeared under water , and nothing was to be seen but a violent boiling of the ...
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... berg may have a northward , as well as a southward Captain Duncan , describing the sub- marine currents of Davis ' Strait , in the winter of 1826 , * says , " It was awful to behold the immense icebergs working their way to the ...
... berg may have a northward , as well as a southward Captain Duncan , describing the sub- marine currents of Davis ' Strait , in the winter of 1826 , * says , " It was awful to behold the immense icebergs working their way to the ...
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... berg and the vessel was filled with heavy masses of ice , which , though they had been previously broken by the immense weight of the berg , were again formed into a compact body by its pressure . The berg was drifting at the rate of ...
... berg and the vessel was filled with heavy masses of ice , which , though they had been previously broken by the immense weight of the berg , were again formed into a compact body by its pressure . The berg was drifting at the rate of ...
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animals ANNE PRATT appearance Arctic beautiful become berg blocks bottom called capillary action carried cause cavern cavities CHARLES TOMLINSON cold cone cooling covered crevasses crystals currents danger deep depth descend described distance edge effect ether evaporation expansion exposed fall feet filled fishes floating Forbes freezing mixture freezing point frost frost fair frozen Glace glacier glacier motion ground ground-ice heat height holes ice-house icebergs inches lake layers liquid lower masses of ice melting Mer de Glace miles Mont Blanc moraine motion mountains névé pieces of ice Plates pond portion pressure prisms produced Professor Tyndall quantity regelation regions rise river rock salt season seen ship shores side skating snow-line soil solid sometimes specific gravity stone straw stream summer supply surface TABULAR ICEBERG temperature thaw thermometer thick tion traveller upper valley vapour vessel walls weather Wenham Lake whole wind winter
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Seite 10 - Ye Ice-falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain — Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon ? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows ? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — GOD ! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, 374 Answer ! and let the ice-plains...
Seite 245 - Branch'd out in many a long canal extends, From every province swarming, void of care, Batavia rushes forth ; and as they sweep, On sounding skates, a thousand different ways, In circling poise, swift as the winds, along, The then gay land is madden'd all to joy.
Seite 255 - Silently as a dream the fabric rose; No sound of hammer or of saw was there.
Seite 255 - No forest fell When thou would'st build; no quarry sent its stores To enrich thy walls: but thou didst hew the floods, And make thy marble of the glassy wave.
Seite 185 - As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.
Seite 41 - It may be worthy of notice here, that the fish froze as they were taken out of the nets, and in a short time became a solid mass of ice; and by a blow or two of the hatchet were easily split open, when the intestines might be removed in one lump. If in this completely frozen state they were thawed before the fire, they recovered their animation.
Seite 28 - Indeed we have already mentioned that the heat is abstracted most rapidly from the body during strong breezes, and most of those who have perished from cold in this country, have fallen a sacrifice to their being overtaken on a lake or other unsheltered place, by a storm of wind.
Seite 158 - This shining streak, which looks always brightest in clear weather, indicates, to the experienced navigator, 20 or 30 miles beyond the limit of direct vision, not only the extent and figure, but even the quality of the ice. The blink from packs of ice appears of a pure white, while that which is occasioned by snowfields has some tinge of yellow.
Seite 257 - ... lewd places, so that it seemed to be a bacchanalian triumph, or carnival on the water, whilst it was a severe judgment on the land, the trees not only splitting as if lightningstruck, but men and cattle perishing in divers places, and the very seas so locked up with ice, that no vessels could stir out or come in.