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A FRIEND, on whom I can rely, informs me that during the late frost, Loch Ken in Kirkcudbrightshire was frozen over, affording pastime to curlers and skaters. Here and there, however, small spots of the surface, near to the shore, resisted the frost longer, and when they did freeze the ice was very thin. These pot-holes were dangerous to skaters, the largest being about size enough to admit an ordinary curling stone. Gas was emitted from them, and when the ice for the first time was formed over them one person got his face severely burned by boring a small hole in the thin ice and setting fire to the gas thus liberated, with a match. After a while the gas seemed to lose its power of combustion and the experiment could be repeated with impunity, a feeble flame only being evoked, when the hole was first drilled.
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SHAW, J. Explosive Gas in a Lake. Nature 23, 435 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/023435a0
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