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March 26. Since no further reports were received, we may conclude 

 that it, too, was caught by the inshore invasion of the warm current 

 and eventually carried offshore to the eastward. It might be added 

 that very few ships frequent the regions where the early season ice 

 is most liable to drift (the patrol at the time is watching the southern 

 end of the field ice), so it is difficult to trace the berg movements in 

 as great detail as is possible a month or two later. Four large bergs 

 were reported on the 27th between the 50 and 100 fathom curves on 



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the northeastern part of the Bank, this closing the list of bergs re- 

 ported south of the forty-seventh parallel during the month of March. 

 One of the characteristic drifts of icebergs early in the season (before 

 the early part of April) carries them farther offshore to the eastward 

 than is usual later in the year, as explained in previous annual reports. 

 (See Bulletin No. 12.) 



The fact that the first bergs are usually observed relatively far off 

 shore between the Grand Bank and Flemish Cap has been ascribed 



