Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-06-09
cr.cInRs AND voLcASons.
Eruptions Have Rendered Coal pcds
nnd Mineral Fields Accessible.

trupttons Have Rendered Coal ucds
aud Mineral Fields Accessible.
Resides accommodations OF snow. We
meet with glaciers In high regions, or
extensive fields OF Ice. These are
formed OF avaianches partially thhwed
during the heat of summer. The water
yielded by the melting OF the surface,
In connection with rain, porcolntes
through the mass, which acquires con-
sistonoy, and IN converted into eternal
ice by the frost OF following winter.
Iceland is appropriately named from
the number and extent OF It's glaciers,
which are there known by the name
OF YolSuis, signifying large masses OF
ice, Tho most extensive. the Klofn
NolSul, In the eastern quarter OF the
iaiand. is vast chain of ice and snow
mountains. supposed TO MI space
not less than three thousand square
miles, Some of the Yoliuls are re-
markable for thor vacillatiun--not re-
mnining In n settled poeltinn--a pe-
culihrity common TO the Alpine glo-
cierH. These Ice formations arc found
among the Norwegian highlands In
the chain OF the Pyrcnees, upon the
Sierra Nevada OF Spain: but their
Il
says saussure, IA spectator could be
placed ut SUFFICIENT height above the
Alps 10 embrace at one view those OF
switzerland, Savoy and nnuphine, he
would see mnsa OF mountains inter-
fccted by numerous valleys. and COM
posed OF several parallel chains: the
highest In the middle, and the others
decreasing gradually an they rcoede.
Tho central uud highest chain would
appear to him brlstled with craggy
rocks, covered, even Ia summer, with
snow and ice In all those places that
are not absolutely vertical; but, on
both sides Of the chain he would sec
deep and vcrdant valleys, wen wntored
ana covered with Villages. Examining
still more in detail. he would remark
thnt the central range Ia composed OF
LOFTY peaks and smaller chninn, COW
cred with unow on their tops, but hnv-
ing all their slopes that are not very
much Inclined, covered with ice, while
the Intervals between them form ele-
waited valleys, fllod with Immense
nasses OF ice extending down into
the deep aud Inhabited valleys which
border on the great chain, The chain
nearest 10 the centre would Drogsnt
TO the observer the same phenomenon.
nut ON smaller scale, beyond which
ne would see no more ice. nor even
anow, save here and there on some OF
the more elevated summita." Suussuro
thereiore recognized two kinds OF gln-
ciers; tho first contained In the val
! leys, moro or lcas deep. and which
though at great clcvhtlnns-hro still
| commanded ON all sidoa by mnuntainB
higher stun tie second not contained
h me Naluys' but spread out ON the
| slopes OF the higher peaks.
Fntnl 10 human life Az the cr,iptlong
or the volcano have frequently been.
| large Views Of such nhyHiunl events
/ VIII awaken Impressions Mt variance
with those which thoir detached oh
HerNntion often excite. He who. living
on the slopes OF Vemlvlua. witnessed
his vino-clnd dwelling, or hts native
Ylllngo, overwhelmed with the lava
ana ashes Of the mountain. Is apt TO
| become oNclumYely occupied with tho
disaster, and will not readily reflect
upon the many millions OF mankind
VINO enjoy a quiet habitution. and
| whose locality has mover heon dis
| turhed within the period that history
ana tradition have chronlclod such oc-
| currcncoa Yet nothing Is moro true
| than that the same agency which 10
! occasionally destructive ia n few spots
upon tho worlds eNpunse, has operated
In forming or upheaying the universal
! crust Of the globe ana has thuH been
the means OF building M sure resting
places for unnumbered myrinds OF tho
human family II IL that protrudlng
or elcyating power also that hns rom
derod the coal formations and mineral
veins accessible, and thus supplied
commerce with It's Shows; and come
pairing the physical history or the
globe with the career OF It's inhab-
itanta, how harmless tho EtnaH and
| Cotopaxis Of nature appear, IN com
trast with the Caesars and Enpolcpns
OF manklndl a slight survey OF the
features Of tho external wcrld IL auf-
fiolent 10 show that the tendency Of
their general Arrangement IN to minis
ter 10 the happiness OF man, 10 give
him pleasure in the act OF oontempla-
tion, as well ms to contribute to his
convenience, Its surface, so finely d.
veraifiod, Is omlnentiy calculated for
the qualification OF It's occupiers. and
expands around them In every cline
an array OF beauty and grandeur.
sometimes apart from each other. but
often blended IN Wild yet tasteful and
impoaing combinations,