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Every sport and game of the Edwardian world in four volumes — from angling and ballooning to yachting — written by the people who did them, Theodore Roosevelt on big game among them.

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Glacier

The accumulation of frozen snow in a valley, down which it is gradually moving. If there is no snow on the surface of the ice it is called dry. A hanging glacier is a mass of ice clinging to the walls of rock.

Glacière. A cave containing ice.

MOUNTAINEERING] Glacière-table. - A block of stone supported on a pillar of ice.

Glazed rocks. -Rocks with a surface or film of ice.

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