| Show ice A CARRIER carnier in the lapse of centuries th ice lee of ibe the baltic has modified to 0 no unimportant extent its cre cle gero gelo con condition ditton ii in the tha northern pars parts of the tha th iea ica ea where th water is least saline the ibe surface is 13 frozen lo 10 ili til tip depth of give five or fix feet huge stones et the tha bottom and the dislocated tops of rock saro aro are hence im bedded in lle ile the lie cong ted mafs mass thus thua grasped by the tija strong lurid ind of winter they are raised up when the water riss ris 9 in fit spring from the melting of the snow and borno borne off by flo floasin floating atin ice ica islands island to te le finally in it a dif dlf derent different site in a similar disimi ir manner fragments upon the surface of or the iee fee ic detached from cliffa T it alongshore undergo cht chi chirigo chango rigo of place there thene are some curious and well authenticated instances of this transporting process professor Profess br von baer afna in lna a communication to the lle ile lie academy of st petersburg mentions a block of granite pr anite weighing a million of pounds which was carrie carrle by ice during the tho winter of 1837 8 from finland to the island of hogland and two other blocks were removed by packed ice lee on the tho south bouth coast of finland about the tha years 1806 and 1814 according to the tle testimony of the pilots and inhabitants inhabit arts atts at memel dieme in 1821 when the broke up a mass masa of ice ice ico descended the stream and was thrown ashore bearing in its bosom a triangular piece of granite about a yard in it diameter resembling the red granite of finland A more singular siu sin guiar gular and kindred circumstance is related by dr Forc hammer hummer of copenhagen in tile the year 1607 lie he states at the time none of the bombardment bar dment of the danish fleet an english sloop of wa riding at anchor in the tile roads at copenhagen blew up in 1844 or thirty seven years afterward one of our divers known to be a trustworthy man went down to save whatever might yet remain in the shipwrecked vessel ile he found the space between decks entire but covered with blocks from six to eight cubic cubie feet in size and some of them heaped one upon the he other he also affirmed that all the suck sunk ships which he had haa visited in the sound were in in like liko manner strewed d over with blocks |
