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Show How to Get It!l of Icebergs. One of tlie grcatcsf. dantjers to Atlantic navigation, and thercforn of Krcat practical prac-tical interest to seamen, passengers and owners of nhips, is the possibility of collisions col-lisions with icebergs. This year these hn;fo prodtfets of Artio wiuters have been nnusually common, and it is stated that tnoro than twenty have been sighted sight-ed in the course of twenty-four hours in the track of steamers plying from Now York to Liverpool or tho Clyde.' A correspondent in The London Times makes a suggestion that these icebergs might be used as targets by crnisors, and thus broken tip and dispersed. The iuigi;estion is well received in England, and it is turned that the British meteorological meteor-ological department follow tho example of that of the United Stales, and mark on charts the area within which icebergs are to bo expected. The captain of a cruiser netting out with such charts in his possession would havo a comparatively compara-tively easy task in finding where the target floated at which he was to fire. |