ON ICE PHENOMENA. O1 
smooth and sharply-pointed pole was driven by two men, by repeated plunges, into the 
soft mud under the vegetable layer to a depth of six feet in a number of places, without 
in any case encountering a frozen stratum. Ice was seen, however, close to the surface 
under hammocks of dry peaty matter. The continued descent of the frost into the ground, 
after the warm weather of spring has set in, is strikingly illustrated at many of the 
posts of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Drains, leading from cellars, etc., and placed at five 
or six feet beneath the surface, continue to run all winter, but usually in the month of 
May they become converted into solid prisms of ice. 
