Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1900 — Wonders of the Iceberg. [ARTICLE]

Wonders of the Iceberg.

All the architecture of the world Is represented in nature’s iceberg designs. Sometimes a little berg will have the appearance of au Arab’s white tent a 9 it rides on a desert-looking sea; another, its sharp outlines softened in the vaporous atmosphere, will appear like a domed mosque in green marble. A cluster of Chinese pagodas comes drifting slowly down the current, followed by a stately gothic cathedral, early style. Then comes a coliseum aud beyond a huge man-of-war floats down the current, Its stem submerged, with foam grandly breaking over it, the stern seventy-five feet aloft. For every cubic foot of ice above water there are seven cubic feet below. When a large berg is seen it is, therefore, quite impossible to realize its full size; the mind can hardly conceive that an object which lias nil the appearance of ackually riding on the surface should In reality only be raising one-eighth of its bulk above the water. Even those who have studied icebergs at close quarters find it impossible to conceive their colossal bulk. A berg that stranded in Melville Bay, for instance, weighed 2,000,000,000 tons! It was aground in water half a mile deep. Another berg was found to measure two and a half miles In leugth aud two miles in breadth.—Pearsou’s Monthly.