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Jones Sound, Admiralty Inlet, and Prince Kegent Inlet. The ice 

 fields in Lancaster Sound and Admiralty and Prince Regent Inlets 

 were new ice. No ice fields were sighted in Davis Strait or Baffin 

 Bay. Only about 100 bergs were sighted in Baffin Bay and Davis 

 Strait in September. This is remarkably few as in other years a 

 hundred bergs would be in sight at the same time. 



For this last information, north of Hudson Strait, the United States 

 Coast Guard is indebted to Captain Smellie, of the Hudson's Bay 

 Co.'s sliip the Nascopie, and for information along the Labrador coast 

 and in Hudson Bay and Strait to the following: Captain Balcolm, of 

 the Coast Guard ship A''. B. McLean, Department of Transport, 

 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada; the motor vessel Winifred Lee, of the 

 Department of Natural Resources, St. John's, Newfoundland; and 

 the steamship Kyle, owned by the Newfoundland Railway, St. John's, 

 Newfoundland. The willing cooperation of these agencies in supply- 

 ing the above information is hereby gratefully acknowledged. 



The following information was also received from the motor yacht 

 Rosaura, Royal YachtS quadron (Captain, H. M. S. Laidlaw), while 

 cruising from Angmagssalik, Greenland, around Cape Farewell to 

 Julianehaab and thence to St. John's, Newfoundland. The vessel was 

 ice-bound in Angmagssalik the last few days of August by pack ice 

 wliich entered the fjord in large quantities. On September 1 and 2 

 from Cape Dan to Cape Farewell numerous icebergs and much pack 

 ice were observed drifting southward, but only a few bergs were seen 

 when as far south as Cape Farewell, 30 miles off the coast. From 

 Cape Farewell to Julianehaab the coast was clear of pack ice but a 

 fair number of bergs. On leaving the coast at Nanortalik the last 

 berg sighted was in latitude 59°43' N., longitude 45°30' W. 

 JANUARY 1938 



No field ice was reported during this month but local slob ice was 

 encountered off Battle Harbour, Labrador. Only two beigs were 

 reported and by coincidence the drift of these two bergs is well estab- 

 lished by successive reports. The first report was two large bergs off 

 Fogo Island, Newfoundland, on January 4, 1938, next on January 14, 

 off Baccilieu Island and subsequent reports off Cape Spear, Cape 

 Ballard, and Cape Race until the end of the month showed the south- 

 ward movement of these two bergs. These bergs were not, by any 

 means, the forerunner of the season's crop but were, undoubtedly bergs 

 which grounded somewhere along the coast to northward late in the 

 fall and being loosened by the winter gales came south at this unusually 

 early date. (See fig. 5.) 



FEBRUARY 1938 



Only three known bergs drifted south of latitude 48° N. during this 

 month, and these were in widely scattered positions showing no general 

 intrusion of bergs except these few carried south by field ice. The 



