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on the northern slopes of the Grand Bank. Then as the season 

 grew older, the latter part of the month, an increasing number of 

 bergs were reported in positions along the east coast of Newfound- 

 land, and in the deep-water gully which leads around Cape Race. 

 Such a tendency as described is well shown on Figure 18, as is also the 

 comparatively large number of bergs which collected and stranded 

 on the northern part of the Bank. A report from the steamship 

 Empress of France on June 30 indicated a decrease in numbers even 

 here. 







M m mi m m m jul m ^p oir m m 



Fig. 20.— Distribution of icebergs south of Newfoundland, 1926. The full black curved line represents th? 

 actual distribution, while the dotted line is the normal distribution 



The absence of berg reports between parallels 43 and 46 on the 

 eastern side of the Grand Bank was quite noticeable if we but glance 

 at Figure 18. The three or four which were sighted in this locality 

 drifted eastward on the inner edge of the Gulf Stream and did not 

 get south of the Tail. The underlying cause for such a dispersal 

 is contained in a current map especially compiled by the Tampa 

 just prior to the discontinuance of the patrol on the 30th instant. 



Summarizing, we state that there was a total of 85 bergs south of 

 the forty-eighth parallel, about 10 per cent more than normal, and of 

 this number there were 12 south of the Tail of the Grand Bank, 

 all for the month of June. The most outstanding feature was the 

 rapid decrease in numbers of bergs drifting southward of Newfound- 

 land during June. The waters, after the 17th instant, were entirely 

 free of bergs that could possibly, from currents, and experience 



