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Banks on the inshore edge of the Gulf Stream. This berg was not 

 reported again, and inasmuch as our records for previous seasons 

 indicate quite consistently that ice in such a position drifts north- 

 eastward more or less parallel with the steamer tracks, we felt con- 

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bergs were reported on forty-fourth parallel, 40 miles offshore of the 

 continental shelf and the next day the patrol located this group, it 

 having drifted northeastward at the rate of 0.7 knot per hour. The 

 bergs were really so small that they were nearly the size of growlers 

 and it is believed they became entirely melted by the 12th. This 



