The Holbrook news., 1912-06-21

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 along a little to the south of Newfoundland. The spectacle really is a treat, though sometimes rather perilous
 The chief fascination is the curious shapes and the marvellous coloring of the icebergs, no two of which are alike, says a writer in the New York Sun. Some are like Arabs tents. oth- CTS like cliffs. castles. cathedrals. yachts or even familiar animals Some times the pinnacles rise 1000 feet up- on the water, while the base Cor water line area) may be ten or twelve acres in extent
 The colors are beyond description; at times pure white; at times of greenish tint, caused by the reflection of light upon the mass of ice under the water being thrown back upon the ex- posed surface. The side in shadow Is beautiful blue. the reflected color of the sky. Others are of a darker blue because built up of ice formed from fresh water that had melted on the surface of the glaciers, or rain or melting snow.
 Beautiful cobalt blue bands are sometimes seen running through bergs, and these are the streams of fresh wa ter frozen before the berg is formed. invaluable as the fresh water supply of arctic ships. Crews from the sail ing ships in the arctic regions are oft en forced to land on icebergs for a supply of fresh water, and 1t is pretty exciting work
 The men approach in small boats, clear away the snow with their oars and then land. If the berg Is big enough all may go we'll But some times the smaller ones with the addi- tional weight of three or four men will suddenly settle to one side, or even turn turtle, throwing the sailors into the icy waters Not only do these sailors get water from the bergs, but they often find seals upon them and occasionally a polar bear. There are often water fowls and many arctic birds
 It has generally been believed that for every cubic foot of ice above water there are seven below, and a berg, therefore, that towers say 100 feet above the ocean level has a total height of 800 feet Lieut.. Peary, the conqueror of the north pole, declares that this Is not always the case. Tt is true" he says, that the heaviest part of the berg is submerged, but 1t is wrong to say that seven-eighths of its height is under water. have not .I ,.-1-,I 1-I,- thirds of a berg was submerged"
 Ohshoots Of Greenland Glaciers.
 It is known, of course, that icebergs are merely chips from the great gfa- ciers. It was thought at one time that as the glaciers pushed themselves into the sea it was pressure from behind l that caused masses to become detach- ed from the main body. It is now known that the calving of icebergs, as | the breaking off of blocks from the | parent glacier is called. is produced | solely by the action of the tide. Up ward and downward pressure, exerted | by water at the rise and fall of the | tides. on submerged portions of the | glacier front forces of a strip of ice, which floats away as a berg.
 Those seen in the North Atlantic by ships passing to and from the Unit ed States and Canada represent the wastage from the glaciers of Green land. There is found one of the very largest glaciers in the world, the Hum Doldt glacier. discovered by Dr. E. K. Kane only as late as 1853. It is 60 miles in length and has perpendicu- lar face of 300 feet How many ice oergs are sent on their career through he ocean by this glacier 1t is impos- sible to say. though several explor- srs declare that the Humboldt is re- sponsible every year for at least half } million icebergs.