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Nineteen, Kiddegitten Gerack Parole. 



Twenty, Kalekin. 



Thirty, Kalekin Mingitkim Parole. 



Forty, Gerack Kalekim. 



Fifty, Miltingum Mingitkim Parole. 



Sixty, Gera Kalekim Mingitkim Parole. 



Seventy, Giro Kalekim Mingitkim Parole. 



Eighty, Gerack Kalekim. 



Ninety, Gerack Kalekim Mingitkim Parole. 



One Hundred, Miltingum Kalekin, 



ICEBERGS. 



Some of the most remarkable phenomena seen 

 in the Northern Ocean, and the manner of their 

 formation, are icebergs. They are greatly feared 

 by seamen, and a contact with them would be 

 equivalent to striking a rock. They are formed 

 far up in the polar region during the intense and 

 protracted cold of winter ; and in the change of 

 the season in summer, though ice is always accu- 

 mulating in high latitudes, they drift with the 

 currents into lower latitudes, where they melt, 

 and finally disappear. They are of varied dimen- 

 sions, indicating by these facts somewhat the 

 sources whence they come, and wearing every 

 conceivable exterior form. 



They are formed by the falling of snow over 

 steep and high cliffs on the borders of the sea ; 

 "little by little the incrustations on the shore 

 and cliffs increase to the size of mountains, and 



