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THE LAST CRUISE OF THE CARNEGIE 



a specimen of bottom-deposit was secured, and the silk tow-net 

 collected plankton at three depths. The Petterssen pump is used 

 to count the relative numbers of each kind of plankton collected 

 by the nets, so it was sent down to the same depths. 



On the next day we lost our favorable breeze and were forced 

 to operate the engine. Fog and drizzling rain added to the dis- 



IcEBERG Passed Off Coast of Newfoundland 



As it was drifting into the steamship-lanes a radio report was forwarded to the Hydro- 

 graphic Office in Washington to warn shipmasters; bergs seldom come this far south in 

 August and are quickly melted in the Gulf Stream. 



comfort. On August 1 we made less than sixty miles, and were 

 carried south of our course. But on the 3d a fine northeast breeze 

 picked us up and swept us past Cape Farewell. We covered 233 

 miles that day with a fifteen-mile current against us. 



Since we were some ten days behind schedule, Captain Ault 

 decided to omit the proposed loop into Baffin Bay, and to head 

 directly for the Grand Banks. On the 4th, Captain Ault was 



