Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 313, 30 October 1891 — A FROZEN SPOT. [ARTICLE]

A FROZEN SPOT.

For many years sQientists h ave been perplexed over the pheaomenoa of a certain weU at Yakuts|c, Biberia. As long ago as 1828 a RuBsian merchant began to sink tbk noted well, and after working ; bnitfor three years, gave it «p, | having at that time sunk it t0 a i depth of thirty feet withoat getting I through the | frozen gro«nd. He communieated these facts to the •Russian Academy of Bcience, who ging o#erations at' the wonderfol welL—These soiontific gontlcmcn toiled away at their work for several years, but at last abandoned it when a depth of three hundred and eighty-two feet had been reaehed, with the earth still frozen as hard as a rock. In the 1844 the Academy had| the temperature of the so'l at the!sides of the well taken at varifcuB | depths. Ftom the data thus ©btained, they eame to the startling iconclusion that the I ground was frozen to a depth ex> , ceeding six hundred feei. A1 ough it| isknowntomefceorologists 'at the pole of the lowest known temperatures is in that region of Biberia< it is conceded that not that ngorous climate could force frost to jsuch a great depth below the surface. After figuriog on the subject f©r over a quarter of a centttry, geologists have at. last i eome to the f\mclusion that the frozen vaHey of the Lenajftiver was deposited frozen just as it is found to-day v during greatgrinding-tip era of theglaciil epoeh.—Meelwnieal News. -V ; --1..