This is also the case with such a mountain, which is also a recipient of the earth's most powerful internal water sources, which keeps it by its great gravity, and lets only so much (water) escape through its pores, that through it the whole country receives its necessary irrigation far and wide; however, the overabundance of these constant evaporations of the inner waters, he sucks out of the air and again carefully into itself. So as not to disappear so easily from him, he transforms into constant ice and stable snow, for which reason he is seldom to be seen misty- or cloudless. – The Grossglockner, Chapter 1, Paragraph 17