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to day. The work, however, was greatly handicapped by continual 

 encounters with fog and low visibility which no doubt prevented the 

 patrol from making contact with this iceberg. Throughout this 

 period of eight days reports of bergs to the northward were continually 

 being received and also information regarding the position of isolated 

 fields of ice on the eastern side of the Bank, but none southward of the 

 forty-sixth parallel. Other patches of field ice were reported between 



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Fig. 13.— May ice map. 



Position and kind of Arctic ice sighted and reported in the western North 

 Atlantic for the month of May, 1926 



the Grand Banks and Flemish Cap. On the 5th, 8th, 9th, and 12th 

 days in May bergs were reported in groups as large as three to five in 

 number all the way from the forty-fifth parallel southward to latitude 

 43° 30' just eastward of the edge of the Bank. The reports were not 

 in great detail on account of fog enveloping this entire area, but it 

 was not difficult to observe in general that the bergs were commencing 

 to get farther south and were drifting in their usual path toward 

 the Tail of the Bank. A respite from foggy weather came at last on 



