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WORLD'S WONDERS. 



ally-accepted theory as to the manner in which icebergs are formed. 



Most of these swimming fragments, or icebergs, are formed 



on the mountainous west coast of Greenland, by the large gla- 



ciers which discharge themselves into the fiords from Smith' e 

 Sound to Disco Bay, as here the sea is sufficiently deep to floal 

 *hera away, in spite of the enormous magnitude they frequentl} 

 5Uain. 



