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Scientific American, Vol. 66, No. 15 (1892) (1892)

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rapid when com- over the ice, a blanket and a few biscuits on his back dare approach are swallowed up in the yawning cre- and only the ominous roar of the sub-glacial waters to pared to the Alpine thirty-three inches a day, but here vasse. The ice of the eastern half is moving much more break the… … feet high form the back- is about two miles. On Arrow points indi- base-line. (Courtesy of Prof. ground to the north and either side is a triangu- cate glacial area. Wright.) G. F. east, a fewof them bare lar patch of moraine of snow, but only because so precipitous. And now half a mile wide at the…

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