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THAWING IN ARCTIC.
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DISCOVERY OF ISLAND.
PREVIOUSLY ICE BURIED.
CHRISTIANIA, September 1
The Norwegian, Captain Wiktor Arnesen, who has just returned from the Arctic, clains to have discovered an island 12 miles in circumference near the Franz Joseph Island, in lati- tude 80.40. He says that the island previously was hidden by an iceberg be- tween 70 and 80 feet high, which has melted, showing the exceptional nature of the recent thawing in the Arctic.