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pack from between Sable Island and Cape Breton Island. The most 

 southerly report was one of this ice from the vicinity of 44° 30' N., 

 60° 00' W. The Canadian authorities in the Department of Marine 

 and Fisheries, Ottawa, at the present writing have more detailed 

 information regarding ice conditions in this western sector. 



In the vicinity of the ice patrol's activities field ice was reported 

 as extending northward from 46° 20' N., 50° 00' W., and northward 

 from 45° 50' N., 47° 30' W. The wording of the several reports 

 indicated that the ice south of the forty-eighth parallel was neither 

 close nor heavy. There were no reports of berg or field ice from along 

 the east coast of Newfoundland, but not enough steamers were 

 traversing the area off this coast to cover it at all well. 



APRIL 



A great increase in the total number of bergs was noted during 

 April. The feature of their distribution was their scattered south- 

 easterly drift past Flemish Cap and across the C United States- 

 Europe steamship tracks. One berg was reported from an extreme 

 easterly position in 47° 00' N., 40° 57' W. Two other bergs were 

 reported from positions east of the forty- third meridian, between 

 the forty-sixth and forty-seventh parallels. The southeasternmost 

 berg of the month disintegrated in the vicinity of 44° 10' N., 43° 20'W. 



Further to the westward one berg was carried south of 43° N. in 

 the vicinity of the forty-ninth meridian. All of the bergs that got 

 south of 43° during the following months did so in the neighborhood 

 of this same meridian. 



The bulk of the April bergs were situated along the eastern edge 

 of the Grand Banks from 45° N., 49° W. to 48° N., 46° W. Agam, 

 no bergs were reported from near the Newfoundland coast. Rather 

 remarkably, none were reported from west of the fiftieth meridian. 

 The continued absence of steamer traffic from this area makes this 

 negative evidence weak, however. The probability is that there was 

 a considerable quantity of unreported ice there, both berg and field. 



The last report of field ice in the Grand Banks area for 1928 was 

 received on the 10th from the vicinity of 47° 30' N., 48° 40' W. The 

 Canadian ice patrol service was inaugurated on April 12. On the 

 13th this service broadcast that there was field ice from the longitude 

 of Cape Breton Island to Cape Race, the fields being heavy to the 

 east and lighter to the west. 



MAY 



As is normally the case. May saw a greater number of bergs south 

 of the forty-eighth parallel than any other month. Their extreme 

 southeasterly drift was checked by the rapid extension northwest- 

 ward toward Flemish Cap of Gulf Stream and solar warming. They 

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