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dess, ans - degs The u2osg derluIts de-
scrIpl0u ot any II tie loeaexEs enooun-
tered vas that al distance Of tkres
uuaS th.ey APPEARED 70 be about 100 text
high
Next T. foEs. or perhaps together wIrh
fogs. there ars nc more disastrous eKpe-
renees related than those We hear OF ia
Connection with ice encountered auung
: passage across the ocean. ana II can.
aol he wondered that in these months,
when fog Is a. a minimum sad com
mzDders Il vessels have time - devote
their whole attention 10 bathing with
the elements and trying % reach port on
/ time ia the face Of the tremendOus gales
that sweep over the ocean, the report II
ice should arouse their fears and re-
double their caution.
Win the low temperature Of the sea
son both Of the air and the water. one
great means Of detecting the presence Of
ice Is % a considerable extent denied the
navigator, and the deafeniue gale dead
ems sound from distance as u whistles
through the oordage and smokestack
guys, 50 that the roaring of the sea at
the base 0f an iceberg cannot be heard
until il is almos; LOO late 10 avoid con
tact with it, Tie ice blink, which fire.
quently renders ice foes visible, even IN
the darkest night, can perhaps be relied
upon 70 indicate their presence, although
the blink that attacks the strongest ewes
Of the brightest Of lOokouts when be is
trying 10 see something through driving
sect and snow, efiectually prevents his
seeing 10 any great distance. The ex-
/ perience Of the past few years has not
recorded ice al this season, bat accounts
Of former years show that 1t Is occasion
ally L. b. met with and unhappily. as
rule, disaster is included ia almost every
account SO that it need scarcely be men
toned that great circumspecton is nee
re7stry Ia passing near the reg IONS where
these dangers may reasonably be expect
eI. Some few Instances from the many
recorded are quoted a- oil interest, show
ing the peculiar and irregular tac.ics
these huge masses Of ice follow, a. they
charge about from place 10 place, some
times urged on by q fierce gale, and then
again floating placidly along in an en-
tirely opposite direction al the mercy Of
some one of the currents or counter cur
rents TO be found in the ocean, the di-
rection of which often becoming tran
sient and contradictory owing 10 gales
of wind that affect the surface of the
water very strongly as far as they ex-
tend
In January. 1918, the brig Anne left
the harbOr Of Greenspond, NewfOund-
land, in the morning and in the evening
of the same day got among ice; proceed
ed thus about forty miles and at day
light next morning was completely beset,
with no opening 10 be seen in any direc-
tion from the masthead In this state
she continued about fifteen days, drift
ING with the ice about sixty miles south
east by east. or about four miles in ev-
cry twenty-four hours. Tie ice had now
become very heavy, high above The sur
face, and about twenty nine large bergs
were in sight. She was altogether shut
in twenty-nine days, in the last fourteen
Of which she drifted from latitude 4d
deg. 81 min. 10 latitude A dee. 81 min.
before tremendous gales of wind blow
ing the whole time from west 10 north
west. In the course of this two hundred
and eighty mile journey more than one
hundred large islands of the solid blue
Greenland ice were sighted.
On the 18th of March, 1926, the brig
Ajax. when between latitude - deg.
and Il deg, weather thick and cloudy.
with squalls Of hail and snow, ran right
in between two reefs OF ice, jammed to-
gether apparently in a solid mass. and
when daylight dawned thirty icebergs
$50 feet high were found surrounding
the little craft. The crew got up wood
en- Tenders and slung them over the side
to prevent being ground into toothpicLs
by the surging masses Of ice. opars,
bales Of cotton and lengths Of cable were
one after the other added TO save the
brig from destruction.
Ia January. 1874, Capt Burroughs in
the ship Sully, met with an iceberg in
the Atlantic in latitude 4j degs longi-
tude - degs. Later wears have proved
the experiences enumerated above. and
This year of exceptional weather, both
lGoat and ashore. has thus far been pro
life with reports of ice encountered in
the same general region that it was
met with ia the cases cited. The theories
lately advanced that the arctic current,
which sweeps along the northoas-ern
shores of this continent and tho island a
Newfoundland until it loses itself under
the heated waters ~ the Gulf stream.
has had no existenCe the past T. eT months
and that consequently the Gulf stream
has come m nearer our e10rce. viii hard-
ly stand when subjected 81 the sosrcane
light of scientific inquiry. And pTac-
teal refuiadon q tins theory can be
found in the changed positions of Che
ioetergs thus far sighted. which Shows
plainly that they are being moved bv
ocean currents in The direction hereto
lore taken by this polar OF Labrador cur
reDt.-New York Herald
Hls Heart out of Place.