How Icebergs Break From Glaciers

The number oL bergs given off varies somewhat with the weather and the tides, the average being one every five or six minutes, counting only those large enough to thunder loudly, and make themselves heard at a distance oí two or three miles. The very largest, however, may, uilder favorable conditions, be heard ten miles or even further. When a large mass sinks from the upper fissure portion of the wall, there is first a keen, piercing crash, then a deep, delibérate, prolonged, thundering roar, which slowly subsides into a low, mutterlng growl, followed by numerous smaller, grating, olashing sounds from the agitated berg3 that dance in the waves about the newcomer, as if in welcome; and these again are followed by the swash and roar of the waves that are raised and hurled against the moraines. But the largest and most beautiful of the bergs, instead of thus falling from the upper weathered portion of the wall, rise from the submerged portion with a stlll grander commotion, springing with tremendous voice and gestures nearly to the top of the wall, tons of water streaming like hair down their sides, plunging and rising again and agaln before they finally settle in perfect poise, free at last, after having formed a part of a slow-crawling glacier for