Show A ABOUT B 0 U T 10 EN edg S WHERE ARC FOUND THEIR SIZE AND SHAPE abight A sight ot of bluze masae jot ot ice lee is I 1 an 1 interesting feature of 0 beean travel t this time ot of tl it e tear year frozean centuries ago Q the advent of the iceberg season of 1900 was recently maz maies le d by the bight sight ing ot achy mask s of loe ice floating southward south Nard by bya steamship colum bian while off coast 81 newfound land at this t me ct of the year one of ahn th features of ocean travel Is 9 frequent view afforded of iceberg g crossing athe the lanes taken by the ocean liners plying between america and E cropo the icebergs seen sean in the north at I 1 ocean have a definite of travel they w arf formed I 1 i the arctic reg ons of heavy inland gl cial ice which moving to the sea is brol en off 04 in enormous masses by its 0 own wn weight and the action of tho the water thee theoe mass masses 9 float away and are caught in arctic ct cir rents and carried into mel ville sound where the current de scribes scribe a circle and carries them to the so uth along the coasts of labrador and greenland such bergs as are not stranded on the doely rod shores drift past belle isle and I 1 across the paths of the trans atlant e c steamers until they reach the higher grature of 1 the gulf S ream team in which they gradually balry melt and P pear ear their moot mot southerly limi it s cape hatteras and their eastern almi lloil passes close to the azores field is then bounded by a line that runs rung north to southern green and vath i a sweep again to the east along the shores of iceland ice and thence norta into the arctic ocean arid east to nova it is i a matter of surprise to persons w who he become acquainted with I 1 ebe gs tor for the first time to aleain that they are frozen fresh ind are not salt they are formed of fresh water frozin many centon ago during which they have been slowly t avel ng no to tip t ip iea ir I 1 ahe he danger of gaviga i n m by I 1 debei g Is very great and nd many agoo abool I 1 shiy lo 10 t hysteria my Steria sty sly at tea u wasfi kaboun aun ler ker ed from collision with one of them drifting its path r the night rr or in a dense jog log in 1891 i the leamul p miranda Kt cari carrying ying a party of scientists to greenland camb int coll s on with an iceberg in th ohp traits of belle isle almost foundered and was compelled to run to st john johns s newfoundland tor for repairs in crossi crossing Ag davia davi strait the miranda abranda Al randa 4 again encountered numberless icebergs of all sizes and of the greatest variety of fantast e shapes sailing toward one of these a spirited discussion arose on board as to its size the esti mates made putting it all the way from to 1600 1000 feet in height it was ma measured bythe sextant and was wag found to be feet high and to cov r an ahei of five acres three and ind one half times aa high as the steeple of trinity church in new york or neaily neally twice as high p s the washington monument the specific gravity of ice lee is such that the proportion pio portion of it when float ing is one part above the water line to eight parts this would makh the entire of the iceberg meag meas tired by the miranda 7 feet or more than one and a quarter miles the berg had an area of five acres which put into a sq tare gives a quad rangle mpa measuring suring 51 feet on each side the number of cubic feet in the mass may be arrived at my multiply ing feet length by feet depth by 7 feet height this results in the enormous sum of 1909 1 cu bic feet A cubic foot of ice lee weighs about sixty pounds hence this ice berg weighed approximately pounds or 5 tons the great depth to which icebergs sink in the sea prevents closer ap to shoie than five to ten miles the temp temperature of northern waters above latitude 59 degrees is below 48 degrees Fahre nheU and the air la Is only franr one to ra x degrees higher therefore the I 1 aceb ergs melt very blow slow ly until they 1114 to the edge of the gilt G lit seen at sea the distance and dir dimen of iceberg icebergs ga are verb ver dece deceptive e t one seen off oft the coat of labrador labrad 0 r ver by the party on the M randa looked from a distance like a low tableland only a few feedore fee DOve the surface of the wat er the rowed eight elgh alloa to make a closer closet inspection of it and then discovered that its walls were fifty feet high and that the berg was two and addel a half miles long new york herald i i |