Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1883 — Hot Ice. [ARTICLE]

Hot Ice.

“Marvelous hot ice!” Did Shakspeare, in these words, anticipate the earthquake of Java? In the midst of the molten lava and carried along by the current was a solid and enormous bed of ice emitted from one of the craters. This bed of ice was surrounded by a thick envelope of sand and scoriae, which are such non-conductors of heat that a red-hot stream of lava running over it will not melt snow. It is supposed that this ice had formed the crust of some vast subterranean lake.—Detroit Free Press.