Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 534
size of theseleviathans of the arctic regions from those thathave been measured. Lieutenant Peary foundone grounded in Baffins Bay, twenty miles from 2,000,000,000 tons. Every year scores of giganticicebergs are stranded on the shores of Newfound-land. Sometimes they cast up hundreds of deadfish… … THE PERILOUS ADVENTURE OF THE PORTIA SEE NEXT PAGE.) land and in sixty-one fathoms of water. It was4169 yards long, 3869 yards wide, and 51 yardshigh, and it is estimated that it weighed 1,292,-397,673 tons. Another that was measured stillfarther north contained 27,000,000,000 cubic feetof ice, and…
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