Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1912 — Difference In Icebergs. [ARTICLE]

Difference In Icebergs.

No two icebergs appear to be exactly alike In size and shape. Some look, for all the world, like Arabs’ tents as they glide along, and others like cliffs, castles. cathedraia, yachts, and occasionally they resemble some well known animal. Some of the pinnacles of a large berg rise nearly I, feet above the water, while the base may occupy an area of ten or twelve acres. Seen through a powerful glass, one may detect waterfalls upon these islands of Ice, and all kinds of arctic birds, and perhaps a tew seals. Then the colors are almost beyond description. The stately pinnacles glisten in the sun like powdered glass. At times the berg is pure white, at others it looks greenish.—From Harold J. Shepstone’s “Icebergs” in St Nicholas.