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continue to dwindle throughout the remainder of May and June. The Cape 

 Race steamship tracks (used by St. Lawrence ships), however, where they cross 

 the continental shelf, may expect to be hampered with about 100 more bergs 

 and probably lasting well into August. 



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Fig. 24. — The northeastern Grand Bank promontory showing the drift of a number of bergs 

 observed by the patrol May 24-31. The drifts were temporarily accelerated by a northerly gale 

 which blew on the 25th and 26th instants 



The summary is as follows: 

 First third of season: 



(o) Normal number of bergs but held up in northern waters. 

 Second third of season: 



(6) Inshore invasion of warm northeasterly countercurrent to the ice. 

 Last third of season: 



Probable accentuation of (o) and (6). 



A northwesterly gale blew on the 25th and 26th of May and its 

 influence tended to accelerate the southward drift of bergs then on 

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