Spring comes and the ice is breaking, Does it break before its time?
Restzhoff, the chemist, demanded the attention of the entire company for his exposition of his devices for manufacturing ice cream from vegetable oils and for administering drugs in bonbons.
Boys were gliding through the halls with ice water, covered trays, and flowers, colliding with maids and valets who carried shoes and other articles of wearing apparel.
Provisions we had, and compasses; water we had none, but we took on board huge pieces of fresh-water ice that we were lucky enough to find on top of the salt sea bergs.
Have you stood on the pack and seen two bergs crush an acre of bay ice between them, piling the pieces one over the other, like leaves of a book or cards in a pack, till they stood high as the tallest tree in a forest of pines?
Our ice and the provisions were gone, and even the compass lost.
Dutch ship came in, and no sooner saw the seals on the ice than she lowered her boats, and in spite of our remonstrances, proceeded to the ice.
Monotony generated ennui; ennui bred melancholy; plenty of exercise on the ice alone could save us from succumbing to actual illness.
We did sight them far in towards the west, and on heavier ice than we generally cared to venture among; but we did not think twice about the matter then.
When the drift ice is crowdin' down here it'll be clear up above.
I haven't pounded ice off a ship's rigging or doubled Cape Horn, but I've gone in swimming at the North West Arm in Halifax in winter.
The ice seemed to be broken by his remark, and soon the pair were chatting away and rivalling the skipper and Helena, who were conversing most earnestly.
Within an hour, they passed the stragglers, and soon they came up with evidences of the blockade in the pieces of floating field icewhich littered the sea ahead.
Naow, I see by the bulletins that the wind for the last two weeks a'most has been from a quarter that'll drive all the Gulf ice into the mouth of Canso Straits, and it'll need a stiff southerly or easterly to clear it.
There's a surface current of the water from the melting ice up the River St. Lawrence streaming down the Gulf this time of year, and it sets hard to the east'ard.
The halliards were trailing overside, and gleaming ice covered everything.
The ground above, also covered withice and snow, was well out of their reach.
Wherever there was a ridge of snow on the ice they could see the marks left by the tramp quite plainly.
By the time they had crossed the lake the wind was blowing furiously, sending the snow whirling over the smooth ice in long white streaks.
The ice on the river is perfect, so it will be the easiest thing in the world to skate to the lake and drag our sleds after us.
The bare spots on the ice were as slippery as wet glass and they had to walk "as if on eggs," as Snap expressed it.
He had met wolves before and he did not think that the pack on the ice would dare to attack him and his friends.
They ran out on the ice and then around the bend, to find those who had been fishing running toward them.
Once on the ice the three boys skated around on the lake until they saw other skate marks.
The gully was long and narrow and both sides were covered with ice and snow.
The ice reached, Shep and Whopper cut a long bush and on it placed the deer.
But then they reached a pond containing some clear ice and here the footprints were lost.
There is no fun in crossing over on the ice without skates.
Then he chopped a round hole in the ice as before, and sat down on some snow and the tree branch to wait for a bite.
Up came a good sized fish, but as it fell on the ice it broke loose from the hook and flopped back into the water with a splash that covered Whopper with the icy drops.
Up came his line with a rush, and out on the ice flopped a pickerel of fair size.
The boys had built themselves a snow hut out on the ice under its bowsprit.
The current of the Belt was too strong just here for the ice to hold it altogether in check; a little farther north, there had been a battle between the two, and the ice had lost.
If now we apply heat to this ice the thermometer will gradually rise until it reaches the melting point at 32 degrees Fahrenheit, where it will stand until all the ice is melted.
If the ice is allowed to melt, the water at the moment of liquefaction would be found to register the same degree of temperature as the ice when first frozen.
Great grooves are formed in the rocks, in many cases running for long distances, that have been worn in by the cutting power of the great ice sheet during the progress of its movement.
This theory can be dismissed by saying that the planet was cooling at the time and has been cooling ever since, and that the reasons for an ice age are greater now than then, on that theory.
This circulation would continue until ice began to form, which would immediately drop to the bottom, and this process would go on until the whole mass were frozen solid.
With the exception of this point and perhaps another point below, the edge of the great ice sheet kept a little north of the Ohio River.
Frederick Wright, author of "The Ice Age in North America," who spent a month studying the Muir glacier in Alaska, for many details concerning that great ice river.
If we take two pieces of melting ice and bring them together they immediately congeal at the point of contact.
Surround can with ice and salt, allowing 2 quarts ice mixed with 1 quart salt, using more ice and salt mixture, if necessary.
Remove with round ice cream scoop, and serve on Heart leaves of lettuce.
Surround with two parts ice mixed with one part salt and let stand 3 hours.
Put into ice cream freezer, surround with ice and salt, and stir occasionally until juice begins to freeze.
If frozen in a vacuum freezer, put mixture in center can of freezer; cover, invert freezer, and fill outer compartment with finely crushed ice mixed with half the amount of rock salt.
Put mixture in can of ice cream freezer, surround with three parts ice and one part salt.
Place in cheesecloth on the ice or in a covered pail until needed.
When frozen drain off ice water and repack, using four partsice and one part salt.
For, when the formation of the ice ceased, we must bear in mind that the country to the north of the terminal morain was covered with a great glacier, in some places exceeding a mile in thickness.
In the formation of these gravel beds, ice has undoubtedly played quite an important part.
Only at one point in all that distance did the ice wall sink low enough to allow of its upper surface being seen from the mast-head.
This animal could not live in a country where the cold was severe enough to form ice on the rivers.
Hence it follows that at the very time the Northern Hemisphere would enjoy a mild interglacial climate, universal Spring, so to speak, the Southern Hemisphere would be encased in the ice and snow of an eternal Winter.
When glacial conditions were passing away, and the ice commenced to melt faster than it was produced, the thaw would naturally go on over the entire field at an increasing rate, and hence would result floods in all the rivers.
Mr. Geikie tells us of some moraines in Scotland that they are so fresh and beautiful "that it is difficult to believe they can date back to a period so vastly removed as the Ice Age is believed to be.
These great glaciers invaded England to the south-west, beat back the glacier ice of Scotland from the floor of the North Sea, overran Denmark, and spread their mantle of bowlder clay far south into Germany.
In order to while away our time at East Cape before ships would make their appearance, or the ice break up, we would frequently go bird's-egging.
We visited again and again the high eminence on East Cape, where we had a commanding view of the ocean, to see if there was any immediate prospect of the ice breaking up and drifting away.
We had an opportunity of judging, from the fact that we examined several openings which the natives had made in the ice off East Cape for the purpose of taking seal.
In the long, heavy swell, so common in the open sea, the peril of floating ice is greatly increased, as the huge angular masses are rolled and ground against each other with a force which nothing can resist.
We saw, also, the broadside of a ship in the ice near the shore, supposed to be lost the season before.
It appeared to be more than twenty-five feet above the ordinary ice around it.
Many dead whales are found by ships in course of the season, and especially when ice is prevalent.
The ice having left this region more suddenly than common, greatly disappointed the usual expectations of the natives in taking a large number of walrus, which are highly prized among them.
As to the relative thickness of common field ice where it remained unbroken through the winter, we found it varied from ten to twenty-five feet in thickness.
Indeed, ice and snow already began to largely increase, though we were in the region of eternal frosts, where they never wholly disappear.
They died in hundreds; remember it was during an Indian summer, and even under the best conditions, with ice and punkahs and shade, the European finds it hard to get through the hot weather.
The ice looks cold, it is very well done, but the little bits of spray loop up round the fish in a stiff frill of a regular pattern.
Windham with its bluff of three thousand feet frowning upon the waters of Prince Frederick Sound; across Port Houghton, whose deep fiord had noice in it and, therefore, was not worthy of an extended visit.
The ice cliff, towering a thousand feet over the water, would present a slight incline from the perpendicular inwards toward the canyon, the face being white from powdered ice, the result of the grinding descent of the ice masses.
I got into a labyrinth of crevasses and a driving snowstorm, and had to spend the night on the ice ten miles from land.
Muir, fresh and enthusiastic as ever, had been the pilot across the moraine and upon the great ice mountain; and I, wrapped like a mummy in linen strips, was able to join in his laughter as he told of the big D.
The face of the glacier where it discharged its icebergs was very narrow in comparison with the giants of Glacier Bay, but the ice cliff was higher than even the face of Muir Glacier.
Here and there would be little cascades of this fine ice spraying out as they fell, with glints of prismatic colors when the sunlight struck them.
What awful force that tool of steel-like ice must have possessed, driven by millions of tons of weight, to mould and shape and scoop out these flinty rock faces, as the carpenter's forming plane flutes a board!
Suddenly from top to bottom of the ice cliff two deep lines of prussian blue appeared.
They told the story of great forests which had once covered this whole region, until the great sea of ice of the second glacial period overwhelmed and ground them down, and buried them deep under its moraine matter.
Yonder again loomed a granite range whose huge breasts were rounded and polished by the resistless sweep of that great ice mass which Vancouver saw filling the bay.
The power of the icestream could be seen in the striated shoulders of these cliffs.
Once a giant, it is nothing but a baby now, but the ice is still blue and clear, and the crevasses many and deep.
Excellent young women have chopped ice and frozen sherbet behind closed doors because they did not want to be told again not to get the ice all over the back piazza.
When a company of grown people goes walking on a tin roof, there are moments of shock when the tin bubbles snap and crackle, making a sound nothing short of terrifying, like the reverberations of season-cracks in the ice on a pond.
Certainly, no one familiar with the facts could suppose that floating ice or icebergs had abraded, polished, and furrowed the bottom of narrow valleys as we find them worn, polished, and grooved by glaciers.
Large boulders are frequently left by the ice along the New-England coast, and we shall trace them hereafter among the sand-dunes of Cape Cod.
But in enumerating the evidences of glacier-action, we have to remember not only the effects produced upon the surface of the ground by the ice itself, but also the deposits it has left behind it.
This is no theoretical explanation; there are such cases in Switzerland, where holes in the ice are formed immediately above the summit of hills or prominences over which the glacier passes, and into which it drops its burdens.
Raven made North Wind and on top of a mountain he made a house for it with ice hanging down the sides.
Then a man came from the other side of the great water and stopped on the ice hills.
Darkness in the Land of Long Night was the cause, through magic, of the bitter winds of winter--winds which came down from the North, bringing with them ice and cold and snow.
The water was covered with ice, and the ice pieces ground together, making long ridges and hummocks.
Dobbs] [Illustration: A Shaman Copyrighted by Case and Draper] As the people ran on from the country of the dwarfs, they found ice and driftwood in their way.
Then a great wind arose, and the ice drifted with him across the sea to the land on the other side.
The next stake was accordingly fixed on a part of the ice which was obviously incapable of what might be called a local slip, and which must, if it moved at all, do so in accordance with the movements of the entire glacier.
We are in Switzerland now; in the "land of the mountain and the flood"-- the land also of perennial ice and snow.
In all probability it still lies entombed in the ice of the great glacier.
The Professor then swung his axe vigorously, and began to cut an oblique stair-case in the ice up the sheer face of the precipice.
You understand that all the mountain-tops and elevated plateaus, for many miles around here, are covered with ice and snow.
