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Show SHIPS TOWED BY ICEBERGS. Great Masses Move Against Wind and Vessels Are Moored to Them. It has been found that the currents round the coast of Newfoundland make Ht times a wide difference In the direction of the drift of Icebergs and that of Hie Hat or pan lco, which, having hav-ing no great depth, Is governed In Its motions by the surface cunents and the winds. The Icebeigs. the larger part of which are suhmcrgod to a great depth, says the New York Herald, follow oul) tho movements of the ocean water as a whole and are Influenced hj the winds. Thus a hugo Iceberg tuiiv often he seen majestically maintaining main-taining Its slow advance In opposition to the wind ami a( ross the general motion of the fields of flat Ice surrounding sur-rounding It. The sealers often take advantage of this fact by mooring their vessels 'to an Iceberg to prevent their ship drifting to leeward. The movement of these ureal mountains of lco is practically Irresistible. |