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CREVASSE

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 432 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CREVASSE , a

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French word used in two senses . (1) In French
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Switzerland, and thence universally in high
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mountain regions, it designates a fissure in a
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glacier caused by gigantic cracks in the
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ice-
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mass, sometimes of
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great
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depth, into which climbers frequently fall through a
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light
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bridge of
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snow which conceals the crevasse . (2) Adopted from the French of
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Louisiana, it signifies locally a wide crack or
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breach in the
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bank of a
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canal or
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river, and particularly of the "
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levee " of the
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Mississippi .

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