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volume and extent of the vast fields, year to year, is very difficult to 

 obtain. The points for wintertime observations are extremely 

 limited and being local in scope, are liable to furnish an inaccurate 



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-Prolific iceberg discharging glaciers near which settlements are located. 



estimate of conditions in general. West ice, however, in larger than 

 normal quantity pressed against West Greenland, December to April, 

 is assumed to indicate greater than ordinary extent of the main fields 

 in Baffin Bay and Davis Strait, but it may, on the contrary, relate 



