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berg in such form as often may be observed in the later stages of 

 disintegration. It has been stated that glacial ice floats with only 

 one-eio-hth to one-ninth of its mass above the surface of the sea; but 



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since Arctic bergs are usually pinnacled, and often in their later 

 stages of disintegration extremely so, the original proportions of 

 one-eighth to one-ninth thus quoted does not follow with respect to 

 height, and bergs shaped in lofty summits are shallow in draft. A 



