The World's Encyclopedia of Wonders and Curiosities

Everything a Victorian found astonishing, gathered into one enormous volume — burning springs and buried cities, freaks of storm and flood, the habits of bees and the manners of nations, filed under headings like “Curiosities Respecting Man.”

Curiosities Respecting Ice

5 pages in this part of Wonders and Curiosities.

Curiosities Respecting Ice (Greenland or Polar Ice-On)

On the Greenland, or Polar Ice-On the Tremendous Concussion of Fields of Ice-Ice- 471 481 192 428 507 513 bergs-Magnitude of Icebergs-The…

The Greenland, or Polar Ice (When the collection of pieces)

"When the collection of pieces can be seen across, if it assume a circular or polygonal form, the name of patch is appl applied, and it is…

Magnitude of Icebergs.-The Glaciers

colour, and glistening surface of which, form a pleasing variety in prospect, with the magnificence of the encompassing snow-clad…

The Glaciers

into the verdant valleys, rich with foliage and cultivation. The inferior ranges of mountains, next the central, present the same…

Shower of Ice. -Remarkable Frosts

from its sides, with the glittering refraction of the solar rays, whilst tints of the most lively green, blue, yellow, or violet, have the…

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