38 THE NORTH ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. the icebergs frequenting the above coast and accompanying the Spitzbergen drift ice; and as this bears upon my own opinion that no iceberg will ground in the channel of Julianshaab Fiord, I think I may here explain my reasons for this state- ment. Having navigated the entire west coast of Greenland and into all the principal settlements, and having experienced a .whole winter’s drift in the ice, through Baffin’s Sea and Davis’ Strait, I have had occasion to remark and to gather all possible information upon the ice movements. Around the coast of Greenland, westward of Cape Farewell, there are two distinct descriptions, or rather kinds, of drift ice ever approaching but never meeting together. The first is the ice formed during the winter on the vast area of Baffin’s Sea and the different channels from the Polar Seas westward of Greenland. This ice, called by the Greenlanders the west ice, often blocks up throughout the year the upper part of Melville Bay, and drifts constantly throughout the winter and early spring to the southward through Davis’ Strait into the Atlantic. It seldom comes in contact with the coast of Greenland below the parallel of Disko, and there . is always an open sea between it and Greenland as far up as Holsteinberg throughout the winter. The second is the Spitzbergen called also the “ store ice,” which as has been shown comes down the east coast of Greenland around Cape Farewell, and is carried by the current up the west coast at times even to the Arctic Circle, but by which time it is usually pretty much broken up, and if not entirely dispersed, the last remnants are supposed to return southward by Davis’ Strait to the Atlantic— so near these two great ice streams approach that vessels bound to the colonies have in the early spring passed up Davis’ Strait with the west ice and the Spitzbergen ice on either hand. But as there are two kinds of oceanic ice, so also are there two distinct classes of icebergs, namely, the

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