Lieutenant Parsons, R.N., superintendent of the mails on board the British and North American Royal steam-ships, reports, that in the passage out in the Acadia, Captain Alexander Ryrie, on the 16th May, in latitude 46, longitude 47, there were seen about 100 icebergs, some of them of large size, and one from 400 to 500 feet high, bearing so strong a resemblance to St. Paul’s, that it was at once christened after that celebrated cathedral. The dome was perfect, and it required no extraordinary stretch of imagination to supply the turrets, pinnacles, and other parts of the building. But this is not the most extraordinary part of the affair; on the homeward passage of the Acadia to Liverpool, on the fifth inst., the same object was seen, and the immediate exclamation on board was, “There is our old friend, St. Paul’s.” In the interim between the two views, the iceberg had drifted about 70 miles.
The Illustrated London News, London, England, Week Ending June 18, 1842
