Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 141
es whotook possession of it to think this was the most over one twentieth of the size of Greenland: forNew York contains only 47,000 square miles.Then think that the glaciers are steadily movingaway from the center of Greenland, really beingcrowded off the land, and it will not seem sostrange that… … ROWING IN FROM AN ICEBERG. how the glaciers work their way along the valleysin the earths surface. As the interior of Green-land is much higher than the coast, many of themlie on slopes which of course incline toward thesea. The enormous weight of the ice mass forcesit over the surface, even where…
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