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Title: Frost & fire : natural engines, tool-marks & chips : with sketches taken at home and abroad by a traveller
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Campbell, J. F. (John Francis), 1822-1885
Subjects: Glaciers Meteorology Geology
Publisher: Edinburgh : Edmonston and Douglas
Contributing Library: National Library of Scotland
Digitizing Sponsor: National Library of Scotland

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d the tool-marks of this part of the denuding engine are various, likeriver-marks. There are many rasps and gouges in a tool-chest, and many kinds of land-ice in the world. The model above described consisted of various parts. 1. A fusible cone of loose solid particles A ; a talus-hea)»dropped from above, which changed into a dome-shape<lmound ^—v when warmed. 2. A half-melted stream of wax which Howed from thebase, slid over sand, and marked out a groove in it v -. 3. A stream of lloats, which were pushed into water, andcarrieil away liy it. It has now to be shown that like systems exist in nature,and form part of a revolving atmospheric system which scul)vtures mountain-forms. Before examining tool-marks, the tools ought to be under-stood ; and the conical luiap comes first in order. The ojjposite coast of Norway is very easily reached fromEngland. A smaUconical glacier is to be found near Bergen,at llie head of the Sogne Fjord. It is constantly changing of Mill I ^-^l t. ,•
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III ^5Ml €ilflil SSI si ilsHillSI 182 DENUDATION—FKOST-lNl ARKS. from dome to cone, and IVoni cone to dome, as it rises andsinks ; it works fast, and on a hot day it teaches more aboutglaciers than any specimen known to the writer. A pilgrim-age to see it in 1857 is thus described in a travellers roughjournal: Sept. 7th.—Started from rja)rland Fjord, with a man tocaiTy my traps, distance aboiit forty miles. No one about thisplace seems to know whether it is or is not possible to getover the mountains, but my man knows part of the way, andthe map has a track marked upon it. The porter said he hadoften travelled with Englishmen, and he seems to he a kindof idle, poachmg, good-for-nothing character, so we got onfamously. On our way we met a pretty girl, who asked myman if a certain old woman was at home. She, as it turnedout, is a witch, and the lassie was going to consult her aboutsome one who was in America. The man told her not tobelieve such nonsense, but she said the Kona had

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