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bardment of a besieged city, and this though 

 our camp was two and one-half miles below 

 the ice front. . . Repeatedly I have seen vast 

 columns of ice extending up to the full height 

 of the front topple over and fall into the 

 water. How far these columns extended be- 

 low the water could not be told accurately, but 

 I have seen bergs floating away which were 

 certainly 500 feet in length." 



It is estimated that the cubical contents of 

 some of these icebergs are equal to 40,000,000 

 feet. This great glacier is fed by the con- 

 stant precipitation of snow upon the sides and 

 peaks of the high mountains that surround its 

 vast amphitheater, which is floored with ice- 

 bergs. Wonderful as this seems to us to-day, 

 it is scarcely a microscopic speck of what ex- 

 isted during the ice age -all over the northern 

 part of North America. 



There are many other great glaciers in the 

 mountains of the Pacific coast. Some years 

 ago I sawone of these immense glaciers in 

 Britis' Columbia, from a point called Glacier 

 Station, in the Selkirk Mountains, on the Ca- 

 nadian Pacific Railroad. It was during the 

 month of August, when all of the region was 

 pervaded by a dense smoke occasioned by 

 burning forests. This glacier is a very showy 

 one, owing to the steepness of the side of the 

 mountain and its great breadth. All the 

 glaciers that exist to-day are gradually reced- 



