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Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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by the glaciers from the Alps of Europe. Some of these lakes areforty or fifty miles long, and of almost unknown depth; indeed, some ofthem are deeper than the level of the ocean, though their bottoms havebeen tilling up for ages with the debris brought down by the glaciers. Look on the map and find Lake Tekapo; it is fifteen miles longand three wide, and is supplied by the great Godley glacier, which liesjust above it. The Tasman glacier, eighteen miles long, is the largestin New Zealand, though this statement is disputed by some authorities.At any rate, there are a great many glaciers, and all have not been fullyexplored. They are on the western as well as on the eastern slope ofthe mountains ; one of them descends from Mount Cook to within sevenhundred feet of the sea-level, and for a long distance is bordered bymagnificent vegetation in which tree-ferns and fuchsias are conspicuous.In this respect the glacier resembles that of Grisons, in Switzerland, THE NEW ZEALAND GLACIERS. 285
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THE SUMMIT OF MOUNT COOK. which comes down far below the snow-level, and is bordered with pineforests and almost by cornfields. Some of the moraines, or channels, cut by the glaciers are verydeep, and most of the lakes lie in what were moraines ages and agesago, when the ice extended much farther than it does now. Lake Pu-kaki is a fine example of this; it is shut in by an old terminal morainewhich attains a height of one hundred and eighty-six feet above thesurface of the lake. On the western side of the Alps there are deepchannels which are called sounds, and greatly resemble the fiords ofNorway. Some of them are eighteen or twenty miles long, and vary 286 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. from half a mile to two or three miles in width; their sides rise almostperpendicularly, sometimes for hundreds of feet, and they are nearly alltoo deep to permit ships to anchor. Sounding-lines a thousand feet long often fail to find bottomthere. Perhaps they are calledsounds because they cant b

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