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be remembered, and no great area could be searched nor could 

 the bergs be definitely located, so under such conditions there was 

 bound naturally to be a feeling (reahzing as we did the direction and 

 velocity of the current), that there was a very good possibilit\^ of 

 scattered bergs drifting in widely distant positions. The problem 

 seemed to be without solution, however, as long as fog continued to 

 envelop these waters. Clear weather came on the 27th instant and 

 the patrol was able to get in touch with some of the bergs of the group 

 last plotted in positions May 21 to 23. (See fig. lo.) A group 

 of five bergs were kept in sight for two days, the 27th and 2Sth 

 instants, and were subsequently reported by passing steamers on 



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Fig. 15.— Bergs sighted by the patrol May 22 and 23. This was not the same group located May^l3-14. 



(See flg. 14, p. 61.) 



May 29, June 1, 2, and 3. Figure 16 is inserted on page 66 in order 

 that the reader may follow the relative positions and career of this 

 ice. The northern bergs of the group were, according to the current 

 map, on the inshore edge of the offshore current but the three southern 

 bergs, that is, those farthest offshore, were in the current proper, 

 drifting 100° at rate of 0.5 knot per hour. This agreed very well 

 with the current as calculated there May 18 to 20, and it showed, 

 furthermore, the manner in which the offshore bergs in the stronger 

 current outdistanced those only a matter of 5 miles or so farther 

 inshore. 



Here is an excellent example of the appreciable difference possible 

 in the movement of the water between two places located relatively 



