The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)
Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 658
. Ice on any water is safe insome places and unsafe in others.Springs or currents of slightlywarmer water may prevent thewater from freezing, making air-holes, or even large open spaces.The channel of a river, or the partsof a lake near the inlet or outlet,usually freeze last, because the wa-ter… … he knows it to be safe. On lakessurrounded by hills, gusts of windoften blow continually in certainplaces, keeping the water in mo-tion, so that it does not freeze, andthere are there-fore large openspaces. When askater is indoubt as towhether ice willbear or not, thebest way is totest it by…
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