Dear Stales: I never thought about the snow accumulation during the fifty years. But I think that the Greenland ice is not deepening five feet a year. At least not according to the global warming people. So maybe it's a question of "Halp zog sie ihn, halp sank er hin....."
Incidentally, I saw a very funny German etching of that. A big fat bimbo lying on a sofa, pulling a timid wimp down to her.

.Es lächelt der See, er ladet zum Bade - Friedrich Schiller ...
... Lieder. {1803} [AUS WILHELM TELL] 1. Fischerknabe Es lächelt der See, er ladet zum
Bade, Der Knabe schlief ein am grünen Gestade, Da hört er ein Klingen, Wie ...
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