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the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland. Two groups of bergs 

 were stopped or stranded on the northern part of the Grand Banks 

 in the vicinity of 47° 20' N., 50° 50' W., and 47° 30' N., 49° 40' W. 

 Neither of these groups was located far enough to the eastward to 

 be favorably situated to serve as the origin of southerly berg drifts. 

 Vessels apparently began using the Belle Isle steamship tracks 

 on the relatively early date of June 21, for 23 bergs and several growlers 

 were reported to the international ice patrol on that date from between 

 Greenly Island and 52° 30' N., 53° 00' W. No field ice was sighted by 

 or reported to the patrol vessels during June. 



JULY 



Fifty-five bergs were south of the forty-eighth parallel. All of them 

 were within a 50-mile radius of Cape Race, Newfoundland. 



AUGUST 



Five bergs were south of the forty-eighth parallel. All were in the 

 same area as the July bergs. 



SEPTEMBER 



No bergs were south of forty-eighth parallel in September. 



OCTOBER 



Four bergs drifted south of forty-eighth parallel during the month. 



Three of these were close to Cape Race and one was about 120 miles 



to the eastward. 



NOVEMBER 



Four bergs got south of the forty-eighth parallel. Ice w^as notice- 

 ably farther east in the ocean than in four preceding months. 



DECEMBER 



No bergs south of forty-eighth parallel up to time of finishing this 

 manuscript for printer, January 4, 1929. Very likely a few reports 

 of ice sighted in December are yet to come in. 



The above monthly discussions and the charts following this section 

 give a general idea of the ice distribution southeast of Newfoundland 

 below the forty-eighth parallel throughout the year. For a narrative 

 account of the ice seen, together with the attendant observations and 

 conditions, see the 1928 cruise reports at the beginning of this pamphlet. 



As in former years the ice patrol kept track of and recorded the 

 drift of as many bergs as possible during the season. The paths taken 

 are shown on Figure 12. The longest track is over 480 sea miles in 

 length and represents the results of 16 days of actual trailing and 

 tracking by the ice patrol vessels. 



