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Show When Icebergs Are Useful. Many sailors possess the curious fact of being able, as they say, to "smell" icebergs, and theroby escape many encounters with thorn. Really, however, the fact Is that tho approach of a berg Is hornlded by a sudden and doclded cooling of tho atmosphere, which these experienced mariners soon perceive and are wnrned by. Dut oftontlmes a vessel will run Into a nest of them and may have to bo towed to safety by her boats, Icebergs Ice-bergs are somctIros useful. The lee of a berg Is a favorite shelter from storm, and Arctic steamers, Northern whalers, and Newfoundland sealers frequently adopt the novoi expedient i anchoring to bergs. |