40'W numerous large bergs and steamed through field ice for a distance of nearly 200 miles. John's reports Atlantic covered with ice floes. They report the sighting south of Cape Race of immense ice floes, which are drifting into the track of trans-atlantic shipping, forming a serious menace to navigation. The floes are said to be heavier than for years past. N 45 o W a large berg.
Issue mentions much ice in the Gulf and in the New England waterways.
At Provincetown, Mass., harbour icebound for the first time since 1875. 18'W encountered heavy field ice and saw 12 large bergs between 150' and 200' high and several smaller ones. John's from Liverpool encountered immense ice floes off the eastern coast of Newfoundland extending 300m seaward and south over the southern edge of the Grand Banks, right in the track of ocean shipping. 38'W sighted 2 large bergs to the northward.