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I HAVE pleasure in sending you a photograph of the iceberg around which we obtained the isothermal lines published in NATURE of December 12, 1912. I did not make an instrumental survey of this berg, but it was larger than the average of those met with in the Strait of Belle Isle. We sighted more than 200 bergs during our trip, and made traces of many of them. Invariably the temperature rose on the approach to a berg. Sometimes a small fall of temperature resulted abeam of the berg, but the rise of temperature was the one characteristic effect. The two other photographs [not reproduced] I send you illustrate the fantastic shapes seen in ice. I wish it were possible to furnish in some way an idea of the wonderful colouring, but I am totally unable to do so.
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BARNES, H. Iceberg Melting. Nature 90, 671–673 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/090671d0
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