How Icebergs Break From Glaciers

The number of bergs given off varíes soisewhat with the weather and tho tides, the average being one every flve or six minutes, counting only those large enough to thunder loudly, and raake themselves heard at a distance of two or three miles. The very largest, however, may, under favorable conditions, be heard ten miles or even further. When a large masa sinka from the upper fissure portion of tho wall, tnere is first a keen, piercing crash, then a deep, delibérate, prolonged, thundering roar, which slowly subsides into a low, muttering growl, followed by numerous smaller, grating, clashing sounds from the agitated berga 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 3ubmerged portion with a stlll íjraDder commotion, springing with I 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 again before they finally settle in perfect poise, free at last, after having formed a part of a slow-crawling glacier for