Category: Travel Writing

Glacières; or, Freezing Caverns

Ice Slope and Basin, Kolowratshöhle Frontispiece Glacière de Chaux-les-Passavant 8 Ice Stalagmites, Chaux-les-Passavant 10 Vertical Section of Chaux-les-Passavant 11 Ice Stalagmites, Chaux-les-Passavant 12 Vertical Section of Dóbsina 15 The Lower Rositten Alp and the Untersber...

Chapters

1. Part V. List of Authors 313

Ice Slope and Basin, Kolowratshöhle Frontispiece Glacière de Chaux-les-Passavant 8 Ice Stalagmites, Chaux-les-Passavant 10 Vertical Section of Chaux-les-Passavant 11 Ice Stalagm...

2. PART I.

Subterranean ice was brought to my notice by a mere accident, late in the month of September, 1877, while on a descent of King's Ravine, on Mount Adams, in the White Mountains o...

3. PART II.

_Terminology._--Ice enduring the entire year is found, in temperate latitudes, in a variety of forms and in several different kinds of places. In some cases it is entirely above...

4. Part IV.: De Saussure, page 274; Fugger, page 296; Trouillet, page 298;

_Time of Formation of Ice._--Everything I have seen points to the fact that ice begins to form in a cave as soon as the temperature of the cave has sunk below freezing point, wh...

5. PART III.

Buried or Fossil Glaciers, North Greenland. (W. E. Meehan, _Philadelphia Ledger_, 1896.)--On Robertson's Bay is the plateau of the Verhoef Glacier, which is about 1500 meters lo...

6. Part I., page 83.

Ice in a Hole at Dixville Notch, New Hampshire.--Mr. John Ritchie, Jr., of Boston, has examined this place, which he is sure is a refrigerator. It is in a hole north of the clif...

7. Part I., page 98. (Dewey, _American Journal of Science and Arts_, 1819,

vol. I., page 340; and 1822, vol. V., page 398.)--Mr. Dewey found, in June, snow 2 meters deep on ice of unknown depth. On his second visit he found less ice and snow than on hi...

8. PART IV.

In the _Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences_, 1686, Tome II., pages 2, 3, there is an account, with no author's name, of Chaux-les-Passavant. The memoir states that in wi...

9. PART V.

[75] This list of authors includes all the authorities which I have personally consulted. Several papers, such as Dr. Schwalbe's "_Uebersichtliche Zusammenstellung Literarischer...