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ice are recorded. The comparison of this region with other parts of the area 
designated as “dangerous from ice” might lead to a wrong conclusion, 
unless we take into consideration the fact that nearly two hundred of the 
ships before referred to have passed within a hundred miles of this route, 
and that more than three-fourths of these met with no ice there, whereas on 
the homeward voyage only eleven ships from which I have received reports 
had entered this region, and each of these had encountered ice. 
It is a very remarkable fact that amongst the numerous reports I have 
received from Australia going ships, not one was within the region in 
which ice is met with during the month of October, 1854. This is much 
to be regretted, since this was the month that preceded the extraordinary 
season of 1854-1855, and in the previous month numerous icebergs were 
met with. I should be particularly obliged to any captain who was 
navigating these seas in October, 1854, if he would communicate to me 
whether he met with any ice, or otherwise.* 
Index to 
Chart. 
Date. 
Latitude. 
O 1 
Longitude. 
O 1 
Description. 
a 
August, 1840. 
38 
30 
S. 
1 
0 E. 
Four icebergs. 
a 
36 
10 
S. 
13 
40 E. 
Two icebergs. 
a 
37 
30 S. 
14 
40 E. 
An iceberg reported 1000 ft. 
A 
August, 1854. 
*50 
0 
S. 
41 
0 W. 
Several icebergs. [high. 
A 
*53 
0 
S. 
47 
0 W. 
Icebergs. 
A 
*55 
0 
S. 
51 
0 W. 
Pack ice. 
A 
*56 
30 
S. 
60 
0 W. 
Pack ice. 
b 
September, 1810. 
3? 
30 
S. 
10 
0 E. 
An iceberg. 
b 
37 
0 
s. 
13 
0 E. 
An iceberg. 
b 
37 
0 
s. 
15 
0 E. 
An iceberg. 
b 
37 
0 
s. 
15 
0 E. 
An iceberg 1000 feet long 
and 400 feet high, pro- 
bably the same as the last 
named, observed from a 
different point. 
b 
41 
30 
s. 
14 
10 E. 
An iceberg one mile in cir- 
cumference. 
b 
37 
45 
s. 
14 
50 E. 
An iceberg. 
b 
40 
30 
s. 
19 
0 E. 
Two icebergs. 
* On submitting a proof of tliis Paper to tbe Meteorological Department of tlie Board 
of Trade, Admiral Fitz Roy was so kind as to furnish me with four reports of ice sighted 
during the month of October, 1854, extracted from a paper forwarded by Lieut. Maury. 
These I have distinguished in the chart and catalogue by the index X. I have also 
since received accounts of some extraordinary icebergs observed in December, 1856, one 
of which was 700 feet high and another 500 feet. Their locality is marked by index Y. 
