Excerpt from Ice on Canadian Lakes Later in the winter the weight of snow would again become too great for the buoyancy of the ice and would press it down into the water, which would rise through and over it and cover it, possibly to a depth of _a [out or more, with watery slush. The surface of this slush might be again frozen during the spells of extremely cold weather which occur in the latter part of the winter. In this way two sheets of ice might be formed, separated by a foot or more of water and slush. These two ...
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Excerpt from Ice on Canadian Lakes Later in the winter the weight of snow would again become too great for the buoyancy of the ice and would press it down into the water, which would rise through and over it and cover it, possibly to a depth of _a [out or more, with watery slush. The surface of this slush might be again frozen during the spells of extremely cold weather which occur in the latter part of the winter. In this way two sheets of ice might be formed, separated by a foot or more of water and slush. These two thicknesses are very commonly found on our northern lakes in the latter part of the winter and a man or team of horses may break through the upper and still be supported by the lower layer. Instead of freezing and forming a second upper thickness c ice the water may melt the snow and carry it off the surface or down again beneath the' ice Thus relieved of its load of snow and slush, the ice will again float to the surface and may become qiiite' dry and hard. The formation of this dry, hard we just at the approach of spring, after it has been very wet and sloppy for some weeks, is a con dition that' is well known to lumbermen and others who have occasion to travel' in the north. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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