glacière

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The plummet ran out 115 feet of string, and struck the slope of snow, down which the descent to the cave must be made, about 6 feet above the junction of the snow with the floor of the glacière, which was visible from the S. side of the edge of the pit; so that the total depth from the surface of the rock to the ice-floor was 121 feet.

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  1. A cave, fissure, or depression of some kind in which ice remains permanently, although in quantity varying with the year and the season: sometimes called, in New England, an ice-cave or ice-glen. Certain exceptional cases occur where, owing to the subsidence of the cold winter air into caverns (glacières), ice is formed which is not wholly melted, even though the summer temperature of the caves may be above freezing-point. A. Geikie.

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