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on all sides, and its surface will not bear us any 
longer. I have sunk up to my neck, as well as others. 
The surface is more and more ragged, and broken 
into chasms, rifts, and ravines of snow with steep 
sides.—Ponds of water form in the bottoms of these, 
and the large and deep pools at the bottoms of the 
snow hollows, and which were in the earlier part of 
the day frozen, are now liquid. It is evident, from 
the falling in of the sides of the rents in the snow, 
that there are Hollows below, and that we stand on a 
treacherous foundation —It is one o’clock, and the 
scene full of anxiety and awe. The avalanches fall 
from mount Moira with the noise of thunde?, ahdswe 
fear our unsteady support may be shaken by the 
shocks, and that we may sink with it, 
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Anp here we were obliged to return! Had it been possible to have 
got across the chasms in the snow, we would have made every exertion, 
