ETERNAL ICE
Eternal ice. to depths of more than a hundred yards, hinds the sod of northern Siberia even in summer, according to Prof. Schostakowiteh. of Irkutsk, who spoke In Berlin recently before the Berlin Geographical Society. The frozen ground covers an area of 5.000.000 square kilometres, a territory half as large as Europe. In Jakutsk a well has been sunk to a depth of metres without finding the bottom of the frozen stratum. The ice hinders the sinking of surface water, so that vast hogs or tundras are formed on what might otherwise he fertile soil. The only spots where thawing ever penetrates this everfiisting ice are diioctlv beneath stove-heated houses. Cases arc on record where these thawed columns of soil tapped subterranean rivers flowing under the ice layer, resulting in veritable artesian wells that spurted to the ceiling and drove out the occupants. Ibis water soon fronze. turning the whole house into a solid block of ice. decorated with gigantic icicles.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1927, Page 3
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163ETERNAL ICE Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1927, Page 3
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