Show ground never thaws in northern siberia eternal ice to depths of more than y yards ards binds the soil of northern siberia even in summer according cordina ac to professor Protes sur of ir kudsk who spoke at berlin recently before the berlin geographical a clety the frozen ground coers an area of square kilometers a territory halt half as large as europe la a well has been sunk to a depth of meters without finding the bottom of the frozen stratum tha ice hinders the sinking of surface water so that vast cold hogs bogs or are formed on what might otherwise be fertile soil the only spots where ever penetrates tills this beierla I ing ice are directly beneath stole stoe heated houses cases are on record where these thawed columns of tapped subterranean risers flowing under the tee ice layer resulting in irritable er artesian wells that spouted to the ceilings and droe out the mccu plaits tills water waler soon froze turning the alie whole house into a solid beolk ot of ice decorated alth gigantic icicles |