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marked 1893, and the next group going northerly are marked 
1892. At first sight this would look as if the icebergs had gone 
southerly against the current, but that view is obviously improb- 
able, for they must go with—not against—the current. I think 
the relative positions would be satisfactorily accounted for thus: 
The 1892 lot, being right in the fairway of vessels taking the 
usual track round the Horn, would be avoided as soon as they 
were reported, and ships would shape a course nearer the main 
land in 1893 and find the icebergs recorded of that date. Mean- 
time the whole lot were drifting eastward, like the “ Dumbarton- 
shire,” and left a clear course near the Horn for homeward-bound 
ships, and hence, so far as I can learn, no icebergs are recorded 
there in 1894 and 1895, 
From 1891 onwards, however, vessels bound for Australia vid the 
Cape of Good Hope found icebergs east of the Cape. At first a few 
Were seen, and the number has gradually increased, until now (July 
26th, 1895) the chart is fairly strewn with record spots from the 
Cape to the longitude of Perth, and from 40° to 48° south, 1895 
having far the greater number to its credit. As a whole they are 
more to the east than those of the preceding years ; and in con- 
sidering their numbers, it is necessary to remember that it is not 
one iceberg but one position of the ship that is marked on the chart, 
and that in almost every instance great numbers of icebergs were 
“ten. Many of the ships saw forty or fifty a day, and others still 
more and up to one hundred and fifty. 
Tdonot mean to assert that all these icebergs drifted over from 
lee of Patagonia, but that many of them did do so I think 
can be no doubt, in view of the very strong evidence of 
drift which we find in the derelict “ Dumbartonshire.” 
Fitzroy’s! experience also favours this view, for he says :— 
mediately round Cape Horn and the Falkland Islands ice 
™ Temains, as any that is drifted there is carried eastward 
1“ Weather,” 1862, p. 149, and Maury, p. 467. 
S—Ang. 7, 1895, 
