For-as it has been demonstrated by Dr. Wollaston's experiment, in which the evaporation, occasioned by boiling water at the mid point of a line of water, froze the fluid at the two ends, that is, at a given distance from the greatest intensity of the evaporative process,-the effect of an evaporation of the supposed power and rapidity would be to produce at certain distances from the 'maximum' point, north and south, a vast barrier of ice,-such as having once taken place, and being of such mass and magnitude as to be only in a small degree Diminishable by the ensuing summer, must have become permanent, and beyond the power of all the known and ordinary dissolving agents of nature.
"Literary Remains, Vol. 2"
Coleridge