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Title: Wreck and sinking of the Titanic : the ocean's greatest disaster : a graphic and thrilling account of the sinking of the greatest floating palace ever built, carrying down to watery graves more than 1,500 souls : giving exciting excape from death and acts of heroism not equalled in ancient or modern times, told by the survivors ; edited by Marshall Everett
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Everett, Marshall
Subjects: Titanic (Steamship) Shipwrecks
Publisher: (S.l. : L.H. Walter)
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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WRECK OF THE TITANIC 113 of this constantly forming ice causes movements of themasses from the center to the sea, and thus the glaciersare formed—vast processions of granite-hard ice whichflow very slowty but irresistibly and for vast extentsdow^n to the water. The size of these great moving plains is indeedalmost unbelievable. The Humboldt glacier is sixtymiles broad, its walls rise three hundred feet from theplace where it meets the sea, and as to its depth inlandit has been plumbed for half a mile. Every year it sendsout over the ocean a mass whose area is greater than thatof the State of New Jersey. Another of the great Greenland glaciers, called theJacobshaven glacier, is two thousand feet broad and onethousand feet high, and its output to the sea is estimatedas being over 400,000,000,000 cubic feet of ice yearly. Thousands of miles of this matter are constantlybeing emptied into the ocean, the rate of progress beingabout forty-two feet a day. Immense masses of solidice creep a

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