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I AM informed that near the Wash, and I suppose at other parts of the coast, the sea at low water is frozen into masses which with the rising tide become floes, and are urged backwards and forwards on the beach. This is, I believe, not a frequent occurrence on our shores, and it would be interesting if any observers could note whether the shingle or the stones embedded beneath the floes, when such are found, have become polished or scratched as by glacial action.
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ATKINSON, W. Our Latest Glacial Period. Nature 43, 270 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/043270a0
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