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Show An Ireliere 100 Fc,t IIIrIi. There was one cabin passenger aboard tho Leyland line steamship Columbian, which arrived Xyesteriay from Liverpool, says the Now Yark Sun. and he might havo seen oft tho banks on Tuesday morning, It he had been an early riser, sorrethlng that very few passengers of any sort gat a glimpse of at sea, a colossal Icobcrg, computed by Third Onieer Roberts to be BOO foot high. Very few bergs moro than half that height have boon seen In tho North Atlantic The lookout In the crow's nest saw the big borg first and signalled by two bells to tho bridge that there was a "ship on tho starboard bow." He did not find out until later that tho vision was a berg. The Columbian passed eight miles to tho south of the Ice nuiRs, which was shaped like a sugar loaf. Tho berg ran the temperaturo of tho air do-vn to 48 degrees and that o: the w or down to 45 degrees Tho ofllceis of tho Columbian think r tint the berj, was about an eighth of a mile Ion;,'. |