The scientists have for years been perplexed over the wonderful frozen well at Vakufsk, Siberia. As long ago as ISS2 it was announced that the ground ■was frozen to an abnormal depth at the place referred to. In the summer of 1829 a Russian merchant set a gang of men to the task of ascertaining the depth of the frozen stratum. They .gave up the job after digging some thirty feet in solidly frozen ground. The Russian Academy of Sciences took the matter in hand and between IS3S and 1844 dug to a depth of 352 feet and then abandoned the shaft because the earth was still frozen as hard as a. rock. Natural cold could never penetrate to such a depth and the phenomenon is still unexj>lainable.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 41, 16 February 1918, Page 13
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