The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 208
not know how much of it may be hiddenbelow the surface. If you guess its top to be twohundred feet above the surface of the sea, you den may project sideways or lengthways fromthe portion which is visible, and if the vessel ven-tures too near, she may strike the projection andbe sunk, or grounded… … A SCHOONER AMONG THE GROWLERS, AS THE SMALL ICEBERGS ARE CALLED. may not be far wrong. Some have drifted pastthe city of St. Johns, Newfoundland, that werenearly as high as the hills that mark the entranceto its harbor, and icebergs rising two hundredand two hundred and fifty feet out of the…
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