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ARE not the facts of ice-accumulations at “the western sides of seas or inlets,” mentioned in your last number (p. 78), to be explained by reference to Baer's law for the flow of rivers? This law, corroborated by many observers in all parts of the world (see for instance NATURE, vol. xv. p. 207), states, as a simple consequence of the earth's rotation, the deviation to the right bank of all rivers of the northern hemisphere running north and south, i.e. to the west, if the flow is from the north, and to the east if from the south. Considered from this point of view, it may suffice that the masses of ice are borne by currents from the north, to account for the accumulations on the western borders of these currents, i.e. on “the eastern coast of any portion of land.” I am well aware that the principle in question was applied to the theory of ocean-currents, long ere C. E. von Baer extended it to the phenomena of rivers; the above case may be considered as connecting together both classes of phenomena.
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WETTERHAN, D. Arctic Research. Nature 25, 102–103 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/025102c0
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