Show water avater as a solid wo we usually think ol 01 minerals ns as solid things lings ti such as metals and rocks a and n 1 I jewels and ana various chemical salts but when wo we consider tho the matter a little we vre aee see that all these things it if melted by strong heat are minerals still kill only they aro are now in a fluid instead of a solid state the difference between these minerals and arid water is that water gets fluid at a lower temperature tl than an they do and like qui quicksilver e k melted at ordinary livi living ng heat but in those old ice ages which ono ile after another have swept now over the northern and now over the tile southern hemisphere ug ruin and desolation tho the natural and common condition of water was that of a solid ice ns as it largely is today out ont of doors in winter when not kept fused by the stored up beat af pf of the tile soil wit and rocks or melted by the sun bun T mitchell n in Ilar harpers pers |