The weaknesses of the strong are like the crevasses in a glacier; they have a general direction, but it is impossible to know certainly beforehand the precise depth or importance of any one of them, nor how far it may lead.

The only sounds were the gurgling of small rills down in the veins and crevasses of the glacier, and now and then the rattling report of falling stones, with the echoes they shot out into the crisp air.

R. Browning, King Victor and King Charles, etc. CHARLES KNOLLYS, an English bridegroom, who falls into a crevasse on his wedding-trip, and is found by his wife in the ice, still young and beautiful in his icy shroud, forty-five years later.

We reached the gigantic crevasse at 7.35.

Should we still find an impassable system of crevasses above us, or were we close to the top?

Some day I should find that the ascent of a zigzag was as bad as a performance on the treadmill; that I could not look over a precipice without a swimming in the head; and that I could no more jump a crevasse than the Thames at Westminster.

At the end of the second day we got among very bad crevasses through keeping too far to the eastward.

No crevasses to-day.

There are crevasses about, one about eighteen inches across outside Bowers' tent, and a narrower one outside our own.

We passed one or two very broad (30 feet) bridged crevasses with the usual gaping sides; they were running pretty well in N. and S. direction.

Late in the march we turned more to the north and again encountered open crevasses across our track.

The crevasse for the time being was an inferno, and the time must have been all too terribly long for the wretched creatures.

Thus to my dismay I discovered that we were on a narrow island about two miles long, with two barely possible ways of escape: one back by the way we came, the other ahead by an almost inaccessible sliver-bridge that crossed the great crevasse from near the middle of it!

At some distance to our left was the crevasse into which Dr. Hamel's three guides were precipitated by an avalanche in 1820; they are still entombed in the ice, and some future explorer may, perhaps, see them disgorged lower down, fresh and undecayed.