. The Arctic world: its plants, animals and natural phenomena [microform] : with a historical sketch of Arctic discovery down to the British Polar Expedition: 1875-76. British Polar Expedition, 1875-76; British Polar Expedition, 1875-76; Zoology; Zoologie. ICK-CAVEKNS AND GLACIEKS. U9 attributes to the slight inclination and the unifonnity of the slopes, as well as to the diiainution <,i the solar heat, which, even in the long summer days, does not melt the surtacc. Tliort! are no rills or streams capable of hollowing out crevasses and moulding jjrotuberances or projections. But transversal
. The Arctic world: its plants, animals and natural phenomena [microform] : with a historical sketch of Arctic discovery down to the British Polar Expedition: 1875-76. British Polar Expedition, 1875-76; British Polar Expedition, 1875-76; Zoology; Zoologie. ICK-CAVEKNS AND GLACIEKS. U9 attributes to the slight inclination and the unifonnity of the slopes, as well as to the diiainution <,i the solar heat, which, even in the long summer days, does not melt the surtacc. Tliort! are no rills or streams capable of hollowing out crevasses and moulding jjrotuberances or projections. But transversal crevasses produced bv the movement of the glaciers arc numerous, and those are often very wide and very deep. In the terminal escarpment, which melts in proportion as it plunges into the sen, immense caverns are sometimes seen ; caverns so immense that the azure-gloaming grottoes of the Arveiron and Grindelwald, so much admin-d by European travellers, are but miniatnies. " Oie day,"' says Charles Martins, " after having afecertamed the temperature of the sea off the great glacier of Bell Sound. I proposed to tlie sailors who accomps^'iied me to carry our boat into il< cavern. I explained to them the risk we should incur, being unwilling to attempt anything without their consent. When our boat had crossed the threshold, we found ourselves in an iinnieiiso (jlothic. 'IKIl. IIAV, Sl'IT/.IIKUUKS. cathedral; long conical-pointed cylinders of ice descendeil from the roof; the recesses seemed S(j many chapels opening out cf the principal nave; broad fissures divided the walls, and the open intervals, like arches, sprang towards the sumn.'ts; azure gleams played over the icy surface, and were reflected in the water. The sailors, like myself, were dumb with admiration. But a too prolonged contemplation would have been dangerous; we soon regained the narrow opening through which we had penetrated into this winter temple, and, returning on boanl our vess
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