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nevertheless, were sighted along the 47° 30' parallel, the work being 

 further assisted by the steamship Arahic which passed during the 

 afternoon of June 9 about 5 miles north of us. It was estimated that 

 to date there were a total of 65 bergs present for the month south of 

 Newfoundland (forty-eighth parallel), but nearly all of the ice was 

 north of the forty-sixth parallel and distributed in various positions 



<5^S^^ 33 JA «Ji ^0 ^9 -18 ^7 46 4^ 44 43 



Fig. 26.— June ice map. There were approximately 95 bergs south of the forty-eighth parallel 



during the month 



along the northern slopes of the Grand Banks. It appeared to 

 exhibit no appreciable drift; if anything, it was working slowly to 

 the southward farther in toward shallow water and, of course, break- 

 up at a seasonal rate. Those bergs which were on the extreme 

 northeastern side of the Bank, however, were being carried to the 

 southward in a path more or less following the trend of the slope. 



