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was met with. After the pressure had been applied a short time, 
and before the circle was half turned, the rods always broke with 
moment. The bending had so altered the structure of the ice, 
that it had lost much of its viscosity and became brittle. How then 
Which exist in iers. r pr ted 
the glacier, bending takes place, so relieving the ice at that part 
rom the pressure, which comes to r 
cler; and before the pressure again comes to bear on the first part 
