The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 206
r given the name Iceland to fitting title, though its masses seem small com-pared with those of Greenland, for here theearths surface is buried in an ice cap which thescientists believe to be fully 3000 feet—over ahalf mile—thick in the interior. From this capextend numberless glaciers, which reach… … A CURIOUS FORMATION OF AN ICF.BERG, CAUSED BY MELTING. this great region of the arctic, it would havebeen far more suitable, perhaps, than Greenland,for its smaller companion which lies between itand the continent of Europe has more vegetation ;but when Iceland was first settled, its glaciers…
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