414 ICE PHENOMENA. 



While we observe all this in the forms of nature, it is not less in- 

 teresting to turn the thought inward and mark the delight which the 

 mind takes in numerical repetitions and recurrences — such delight as 

 is felt in rhyme, and in music. These co-relations in poetry and mu- 

 sic appeal to the same faculty of the mind which delights in the dis- 

 covery of correspondences and proportions among the objects of 

 nature. So that the man of judicious and deliberate research finds 

 in the living garment with which God has clothed this wondrous 

 world, a poem rich in the most beautiful analogies, a piece of music 

 full of the most glorious harmonies. 



" The well directed sight 



Brings, in each flower, a universe to light." 

 The student who will study the structure of plants with a view to 

 these numerical relations and adaptations, may add no new names to 

 the list of Flora, but he will reap a rich harvest of profitable know- 

 ledge, and will be led more and more to magnify the Lord with " the 

 duty of a devout and learned admiration." 



" Thy desire, which tends to know 



The works of God, thereby to glorify 

 The great workmaster, leads to no excess 

 That reaches blame, but rather merits praise 

 The more it seems excess. * • 



For wonderful indeed are all his works. 

 Pleasant to know, and worthiest to be all 

 Had iu remembrance, always with delight." 



ICE PHENOMENA, FROM OBSERVATIONS 

 ON RICE LAKE, 



BY J. H. BUMBLE, C. E., 



ENGINEEE OF THE COBOUEG AND PEXEEBOEOUGH EAILWAT. 



The phenomena attending ice are, I believe, but little understood or 

 investigated in Canada*. * That water increases in bulk during the pro- 

 cess of crystalization is well known. The mere facts, that ice floats on 

 water, and that vessels of any description which contain water fracture 

 while it is congealing, are proofs sufficiently practical. But that ice 

 itself should be capable of expanding and increasing in bulk is not 

 equally well known, although many practical proofs are afforded. 



