Ice-work, Present and Past

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K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini

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Pagina 59 - It was a beautifully clear evening, and we had a most enchanting view of the two magnificent ranges of mountains, whose lofty peaks, perfectly covered with eternal snow, rose to elevations varying from seven to ten thousand feet above the level of the ocean. The glaciers that filled their intervening valleys, and which descended from near the mountain summits, projected in many places several miles into the nea, and terminated in lofty perpendicular cliffs.

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