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then just below the forty-sixth parallel between Flemish Cap and 

 the Grand Banks. The normal number of bergs for February is 

 10, just what was observed. 



MARCH 



There was'' a total of 7 field-ice reports and 38 reports of icebergs 

 received during the month, some of which, of course, referred to the 

 same ice. No field ice, however, was sighted south of the forty-sixth 

 parallel, a fact which showed the ice had not increased in abundance 



so AS 



3o 49 45 ^-] 46 ^S -44. -Ji 4-^ 4l 



Fig. 21.— March ice map. There were 26 bergs south of the forty-eighth parallel during the month 



sufficient to extend its boundary southward of a point observed in 

 February. About half of the bergs drifted southeastward between 

 Flemish Cap and the Grand Banks, and out on to the northern edge 

 of the Atlantic water. The patrol sighted its first ice for the year 

 on the 29th instant in the form of a small growler, latitude 44° 00', 

 longitude 49° 00'. The next day we made contact with the two 

 southernmost bergs 44° 26', 48° 40'. The patrol remained with the 

 inshore berg (they being about 10 miles apart) for the last two days 

 of March, during which time a drift of 1.4 knots per hour was recorded 



