. Hours of exercise in the broken fragments of ice he formed cakes andcylinders; and uniting the latter, end to end, hepermitted them to freeze together to long sticks ofice. Placing, moreover, in a suitable mould acylinder of ice of the shape represented in fig. 7, hesqueezed it into the cake represented in fig. 8. Infact he corroborated, by a series of striking experi-mental devices of his own the results previouslyobtained by myself. 382 EELMIIOLTZ ON ICE AND GLACIERS. [1805 With regard to the application of these resultsto the phenomena of glaciers, Professor Helmholtz,after satisfy


. Hours of exercise in the broken fragments of ice he formed cakes andcylinders; and uniting the latter, end to end, hepermitted them to freeze together to long sticks ofice. Placing, moreover, in a suitable mould acylinder of ice of the shape represented in fig. 7, hesqueezed it into the cake represented in fig. 8. Infact he corroborated, by a series of striking experi-mental devices of his own the results previouslyobtained by myself. 382 EELMIIOLTZ ON ICE AND GLACIERS. [1805 With regard to the application of these resultsto the phenomena of glaciers, Professor Helmholtz,after satisfying himself of the insufficiency of otherhypotheses, thus finally expresses his conviction : I do not doubt that Tyndall has assigned theessential and principal cause of glacier-motion, inreferring it to fracture and regelation. It is perhaps worth stating that the term re-gelation was first introduced in a paper publishedby Mr. Huxley and myself more than seven yearsafter the discovery of the fact by Faraday, and thatit was sugg


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