40 ICEBERGS. [CHAP. II. 



and a magnificent example is recorded by Sir James Ross of the 

 capsizing of a great island of ice near Possession Island, in lat. 

 71 56 S. What had previously been the bottom came up 

 and rose 100 feet above the surface of the sea, and the whole of 

 the new top and eastern side were seen to be covered with earth 

 and stones. A party landed on it, and a slight .rocking motion 

 was still perceptible, such as no waves or swell of the sea, even 

 in a storm, are ever capable of imparting to such large icebergs.^ 

 The lower down the carcass of the whale is buried in the original 

 berg, the higher up will it be raised above the level of the sea 

 when the same berg has turned over. 



# Sir J. Ross s Voyage to Southern Seas, vol. i. pp. 195, 196. 



