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paa ol Stationer med 1 Mils Afstand mdbyrdes, saml 

 en Buudskrabning. Kystbankens Afheld mod Ishavs- 

 dybet fandtee førsl i en Afstand af 25 Mil fra Land og 

 først her fandtes, i 381 Favne, iskoldt Vand ved Hunden. 

 Kursen sattes deretter sydover og Opgangen fra Dybét af 

 den samme Banke blev bestemt paa ti-f" Bredde, hvor der 

 blev tåget ti Lodskud, 2 Temperaturrækker og 2 Bund- 

 skrabninger. Dette. Arbejde blev udført til onj Aftenen dem 

 22de August, og da ophørte ogsaa det gode Vejr, som vi 

 siden Ankomsten til Namsos bavde liavt. 



I Taage og Kuling gjordes Land 'meste Morgen, den' 

 23de August, ved ( )na Fyr. hvor Lods kom ombord, og om 

 Ettermiddagen ankredes ved Molde. Den 24de blev der 

 loddet, tauet Temperaturrække og skrabet i Romsdalsfjor- 

 den, og samme Lags Alten ankom Expeditionen til Aale- 

 snnd. Her kom der Kl. 8 om Aftenen en Stormbyge, der 

 rev Skibet løs fra sine Fortøjninger, og først Kl. 2 om 

 Morgenen blev det atter bragt paa sikker Ankerplads igjen. 

 Len næste Formiddag afgik vi frå Aalesund. laa om X atten 

 i Florø og ankom Lørdag Middag den 26de August til 

 Bergen. 



Samtlige Expeditionens Medlemmer debarkerede samme 

 Dag. og Mandag Morgen begyndte Desarmeringen-, idet alle 

 Expeditionens Sager bragtes' i Land paa Marinens 'Værft, 

 hvor det fornødne Magazinrum velvilligen var stillet til 

 Expeditionens Raadighed. Samtidig udtoges, Indredningen. 

 og Skibet klargjordes til Fragtfart ved D'Hrr. Brunchorst 

 & 1 tekkes Værft. hvorfra det den 7de September aflevere- 

 .des til Rederiet. 



1877. 



Den for dette Aar vedtagne Plan var saahdende : 

 Fartojets Udrustning og Bestemmelsen af -dets magne- 

 tiske Konstanter antages færdige til den Iste Juni. • 



Ved Studiet af Varmeforholdene i Dybet over Ban- 

 kerne udenfor Vestkysten har det vist sig. at der endnu 

 savnes nogle Temperaturrækker i den norske Rende. For 

 at faa disse, begyndes Aejen til det egentlige Undersøgel- 

 sesfelt saaledes. at man fra Bergen gaar direkte tilsøs og. 

 følgende Rendens Bund. tager nogle Temperaturrækker i 

 denne. Længere Nord kunne nogle af forrige Aars Tem- 

 peraturrækker verificer.es. 



Det første egentlige Arbejdsfelt er de norske Kyst- 

 banker nordenfor Namdalen. 



Etter de Observationer. som foreligge, er det sand- 

 synligt. at Havbroen. hvor Banken kaster sig ned mod Is- 

 havsdybet. og hvor det iskolde Vand begynder ved Bunden. 



\ve tiiok a series of soundings a1 31 Stations. 4 miles apart, 

 and one hau! of the dredgé. The 'slope of the coastal bank 

 towards the basin of the Arctic Ocean Was found to com- 

 mence 100 miles from land. and heiv. in 381 fathoms, we 

 first met with bottom-water of 0°. Proceeding then on a 

 southward COUrse, the rise of the bank was determined in 

 .lat. 6*4° N., and here we toot li soundings. 2 serial tem- 

 peratures, and 2 hauls of the dredge. This deep-sea work 

 was steadily prosecuted till the evening of the 22nd of Au- 

 gust, w lien a gale of wind put an end to the spell of fair 

 weather we had enjoyed after re.aching Namsos. 



Steaming southward in a fog and a heavj sea, we 

 made land the uext morning, the 23rd of August, near the 

 Ona iighthousé; soon after a pilot came on board. and in 

 the afternoon the "Vøringen" east anchor at Molde. The 

 next day we sounded. took a. series of temperatures, and 

 dredged in the Romsdalsfjord, the Expedition proceeding 

 that day as far as Aalesund. At 8 p.m. the ship. struck 

 by a violent squall. broke from her mooringSj and it was 

 2 oclock in the morning before she got safe anchorage. 

 On the forenoon of the following day wé lett Aalesund. 

 anchored for the night at Florø, and arrived at Bergen on 

 Saturday the 26th of August, about noon. 



The members of the Scientific Staff disembarked the 

 same day. In the course of the next wéek the instru- 

 ments, apparatas, and utber things belonging to the Expe- 

 dition were conveyed to the Royal Navy Yard (storag'e- 

 room had beeu kindly placed at my disposal). and the 

 crew paid off. The fittings below deck were then re- 

 moved, and the vessel cleared for the freight-trade. in 

 Messrs Brunchorst & Dekke's dockyard, where, on the Tth 

 of September, she was given up to the owners. 



1877. 



The Scheme approved for this year was as follows : — 



The equipment of the vessel and the deterniination 

 of her magnetic constants are assumed to have been com- 

 pleted by the Ist of June. 



Extended research info the thermål conditions of 

 . the deeper strata, on the banks off the West Coast of 

 Norway, has shown a few serial temperatures to be wanting 

 for the Norwegian Channel. The Expedition will. there- 

 fore. on leaving Bergen, at once put to sea. and. following 

 the axis of the channel, comnienceits exploratory work by 

 taking serial temperatures. Farther north, a few of last 

 year's serial temperatures might be verified. 



The Norwegian coastal banks north of Namdalen will 

 form on this cruise the .first extensive field of exploratory 

 research. 



Judging from the observations already tåken, it is highly 

 probable that the edge of the bank where the sea-bottom 

 begins to slope down towards the depths of the Arctic 



