17/45 In 1882 Lockwood and Brainard at a point lying northerly from Cape May, in latitude about 82 deg. W., sounded to a depth of 133 fathoms without touching bottom. Peary's journeys along the northern coast of Greenland in 1900, and upon the Arctic ice in 1902 and 1906, firmly established the motion suspected by Lockwood. In April of the years 1902 and 1906 he found an eastward drifting of the ice due to westerly or northwesterly winds. Moreover, along the line of separation between two ice-fields the northern field had a greater eastward motion than had the field to the south of the line. |