Winter Marvels 



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a bird's-eye view of things, from a bird's-head height; 

 that is, lie flat upon a board or upon the clean, dry 

 crystals and see what wonders we have passed by all our 

 lives. 



Take twenty square feet of snow with a streamlet 

 through the centre, and we have an epitome of geological 

 processes and conditions. With chin upon mittens and 

 mittens upon the crust, the eye opens upon a new world. 

 The half-covered rivulet becomes a monster glacier-fed 



TABULAR CRYSTAL 



STAR CRYSTAL 



stream, rushing down through grand canyons and caves, 

 hung with icy stalactites. Bit by bit the walls are under- 

 mined and massive icebergs become detached and are 

 whirled away. As for moraines, we have them in plenty; 

 only the windrows of thousands upon thousands of tiny 

 seeds of which they are composed, are not permanent, but 

 change their form and position with every strong gust 

 of wind. And with every gust too their numbers increase, 

 the harvest of the weeds being garnered here, upon barren 



