IN LOW LATITUDES IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE. 
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Antecedent to these icebergs, discovered in April 1828, and April 1829, 
none appear to have ever been seen to the northward of the 42nd or 43rd 
degree of south latitude, in the Southern Ocean; but His Majesty’s store-ship 
Guardian struck upon one in latitude 44° 10' south, longitude 44° 25' east, on 
the 24th December 1789. 
In the Encyclopedia by the late Dr. Rees, it is stated that “ floating ice 
has occasionally been found in both hemispheres as far as 40° from the poles, 
and sometimes, as has been said, even in latitudes 41° and 42°.” But it is now 
ascertained that icebergs are carried to a greater distance from the poles 
before they are dissolved. 
As the icebergs in the southern hemisphere have been found further from 
the pole in April than at any other time, it might be expected that in the 
corresponding month of October they would in the northern hemisphere be 
found at the greatest distance from the Arctic pole ; it however appears that 
in the same month of April or May*, icebergs have been seen at the greatest 
distance from the latitude of their formation, in the northern as well as in the 
southern hemisphere ; in accordance with which the following examples may 
be stated : 
April 14th, 1817, the Minerva from New York, bound to Liverpool, fell in 
with four large icebergs in latitude 42° 47' north, longitude 47° west. 
April 3rd, 1823, the Mountstone sailed from Plymouth for St. Johns 
Newfoundland, and on the 7th of May struck against a mass of ice during a 
thick fog, and shortly afterward filled with water : — the latitude not given. 
May 14th, 1814, the fleet bound to Quebec, in latitude 44° 18' north, longi- 
tude 50° 50' west, fell in with upwards of twenty large icebergs, some of which 
were 80 feet above water ; and in the afternoon of the same day the convoy 
passed a field of ice about 20 miles in extent, and about 30 feet elevated above 
the sea, some parts considerably higher. 
From the foregoing observations, the following remarks naturally arise : 
* There are, however, some exceptions to this remark ; as icebergs (it is said) have been seen 
in July or August not far distant from the Azores ; but perhaps this seldom occurs, for in these 
months southerly winds prevail, with a warm atmosphere, and frequently a current setting to the 
northward : all, together, forming a barrier of resistance to the advancement of icebergs to a low- 
altitude in the North Atlantic Ocean. 
