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monument lies below the water level. The 

 mass underneath is enormous, though how, even 

 with all its bulk, a dozen bergs or less can chill 

 water and air twenty or thirty miles away is 

 something of a puzzle. 



Close to view the iceberg is often wonderful 

 in color. With different lights it takes all tints 

 of azure, turquoise, and Nile green; and in its 

 shadows it shows all shades of blue and violet. 

 The sheer ice wall is usually a dark sea-green, 

 suggesting the local color of the water from 

 which it has been formed; but when the sky is 

 clouded it often shows a dead-white surface. 

 After it is honeycombed by sun and disinte- 

 grated by warm winds it loses much of its 

 bright coloring. In form the floating berg 

 takes on fantastic shapes, because the harder 

 cores of it are the last to melt ; and they often 

 stand in strange towers, columns, and turrets 

 after the softer parts have cracked and fallen 

 away. 



The northern fields of ice, with all the 

 splendor of the arctic twilights and midnights, 

 the auroras, sim-dogs, brilliant colorings and 

 clear reflections are wonderful enough, if we 

 are to believe the tales of our explorers ; but 

 they seem to have little to do with the sea. 

 Once water is frozen and its pliant surface 



Color of the 

 icebergs 



Turreled 

 forms of ice- 

 bergs. 



Polar ice- 

 fields 



