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CAPTAIN HORSBURGH ON ICEBERGS MET WITH 
tude 17° 59' east. Steered W.S.W. till 2 p.m. and spoke the French vessel 
L’Harmonie from Calcutta. At 3^ p.m. discovered two more icebergs, which 
we passed at 4§ p.m., the most southerly of these presenting a square of 25 
or 30 toises of elevation, but without an apex like the other near it. At the 
distance of three miles to the north of these, another iceberg of large size 
appeared. 
On the 28th of April, 1828, the brig Eliza from Antwerp, bound to Batavia, 
fell in with five icebergs in latitude 37° 31' south, longitude 18° 17’ east of 
Greenwich, having the appearance of church steeples, and apparently from 250 
to 300 feet high, which were passed within the distance of a quarter of a mile ; 
and the sea broke so violently against these enormous masses of ice, that at 
first they were thought to be fixed on some unknown shoal, until on sounding, 
no bottom could be obtained. 
These icebergs, seen by the Eliza three weeks after the former were dis- 
covered by the ships Harmonie and Constancia, although nearly on the same 
meridian, were 32 leagues to the south of those first seen, and therefore must 
have been different masses following nearly in the track of the former, and 
carried along from a high southern latitude by the current and waves towards 
the coast of South Africa. 
The East India Company’s ship Farquharson, April 20th, 1829, in latitude 
39° 13' south, longitude 48°46' east, fell in with a large iceberg, and when 
near it the measured altitude gave 150 feet for its height above the surface of 
the sea, and it appeared to be about two miles in circumference. If the height 
measured from an altitude of this iceberg be correct, the whole height from its 
base to the apex must have been 1000 feet or upward, by allowing for the 
difference of gravity between ice and water, compared with the form of the 
iceberg above the sea. When near it, the annexed view was taken. 
