whose glacial waters looked like skim milk. We were right under a mighty wall that ascended straight up from the water to a greater height than that of the dome of our Capitol at Washington. This wall is washed by the river. It extends along the banks of the stream for a length of four miles and runs backward for more than ten miles up the valley. It is composed of broken and uneven cliffs of pale green ice, from which ice masses are continually falling. It is estimated that more than 8,000,000,000 pounds of ice break off from it every year. That would be enough to load a train of cars 500 miles long, or enough to give eighty pounds to every man, woman, and child in the United States, and leave some to spare.

PASSENGERS ARE AFFECTED TO "SKEK"

We could see the ice blocks breaking off as we stood under the wall on the opposite bank of the milky river. First came a cracking, which sounded like a battery of heavy artillery. Then a mass of pure white, weighing thousands of tons, broke loose from the glacier. It seemed to hang in midair for an instant. It then plunged down into the stream with a thunderous roar, sending up a high cloud of spray. A moment later the crest had cleared away, and the ice block or berg could be seen rising and falling, sending waves in billows almost to our feet. 