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IN my report last year I described the ice as consisting of three kinds, viz., icebergs, heavy arctic ice and ordinary field ice. The icebergs are stated to hive come from Fox Channel. This conclusion was based on the report from No. 3 station made on the homeward voyage of the Neptune, that the icebergs passed the bluff from west towards east. This report was made on the strength of the few observations which the party had been able to make in the interval between the two calls of the Neptune at the inlet. Further and more perfect observations show conclusively that the current sets in the opposite direction and that the icebergs move from east to west. If further proof of the existence of this set were necessary, we have it in the drift of the Alert when fast in the ice off Ashe Inlet and invariably carried to the westward.
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Ice Movements in Hudson's Bay 1 . Nature 34, 304–305 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034304a0
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