...growing isolation of the prisms, or more and more " rotten, as the phrase is, though retaining nearly all its thickness, the ice will at last scarcely support...very slight resistance being made to the point of a cane. Before describing the peculiar preliminary process by which ice is brought to this condition,...

...growing isolation of the prisms, or more and more " rotten, as the phrase is, though retaining nearly all its thickness, the ice will at last scarcely support...very slight resistance being made to the point of a cane. Before describing the peculiar preliminary process by which ice is brought to this condition,...

...growing isolation of the prisms, or more and more " rotten," as the phrase is, though retaining nearly all its thickness, the ice will at last scarcely support...though bearing upon a large surface — the foot of a man easily breaking through, and very slight resistance being made to the point of a cane. Before...

...growing isolation of the prisms, or more and more " rotten," as the phrase is, though retaining nearly all its thickness, the ice will at last scarcely support...though bearing upon a large surface — the foot of a man easily breaking through, and very slight resistance being made to the point of a cane. Before...

...will at last scarcely support a small weight, though bearing upon a large surface — the foot of a man easily breaking through, and very slight resistance being made to the, point of a cane. Before describing the peculiar preliminary process by which ice is brought to this condition,...

...adequate to sustain the weight and shock of the travel it had borne during the winter ; but becoming lees and less coherent by the growing isolation of the...own centre of gravity — that is to say, it will bo upon its side, exposing large surfaces to the action of the warm water. With the ice in such condition,...

...of the prisms, or more and more ' rotten,' as the phrase is, though retaining all its thickness, tho ice will at last scarcely support a small weight,...contact of the particles being destroyed, each will flrop into the position in the water below required by the place of its own centre of gravity — that...

...surfaces of contact, but touching rather at points and on edges, and kept in place at last merely hy want of room to fall asunder. Until this change has...points of contact of the particles being destroyed, caca will drop into the position in the water below required by the place of its own centre of gravity...

...somewhat advanced, the cohesive strength of ice of considerable thickness is still adequate to sustain fie weight and shock of the travel it had borne during...water below required by the place of its own centre of gravity—that is to say, it will be upon its side, exposing large surfaces to the action of the warm...

...somewhat advanced, the cohesive strength of ice of considerable thickness is still adequate to sustain Uie weight and shock of the travel it had borne during...position in the water below required by the place of it* own centre of gravity — that is to say, it will be upon ita side, exposing large surfaces to...