The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 207
, or stirs the depthsbeneath. These may rend theglacier apart or, possibly, on one of those occa-sional days of the short Greenland summer whenthe suns rays are warm enough, they weaken aportion which is thinner than the rest. So otherbergs are formed to be caught in the ocean riverand perhaps… … A FLOATING MOUNTAIN FROM GREENLAND. it. Perhaps it hangs above the sea for a distance to see an iceberg glittering in the sunlight, youof fifty feet or more, because if the ice is very may think of it as a part of a glacier that is per- MARVELS OF EARTH AND OCEAN 191 haps a thousand years old. Well…
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