SAW TREMENDOUS ICEBERGS.
THEY ARE 300 FEET HIGH AND SEVEN AND EIGHT MILES LONG NEAR CAPE HORN.
San Francisco, Nov. 20.—French sailing vessels making port from around Cape Horn hold the record for sighting huge icebergs. The French bark Eugenie Fautrel, from Hamburg, reported that on September 14, near Cape Horn, a berg seven miles long and 300 feet high was seen several miles distant on the port bow. Now comes the French bark Anne De Bretagne, 164 days from Cardiff, and reports that she not only saw a berg 300 feet high and eight miles long, but she had to sheer off to keep from wrecking herself against it.
It was seen on September 3, and after passing through a great mass of ice, the Bretagne suddenly came within sight of the giant, harmless enough in appearance through the soft mist, but with terribly jagged comers, and a breadth of front that made the Frenchmen quail.