CRUISES OF THE 



divided into four principal groups 

 water, or Gulf , 

 Stream water, | 

 (2) Mediterranean 

 water, (3) Arctic 

 polar water, and 

 (4) the so - called 

 bottom -water, all 

 of which we were 

 able to study on 

 our voyage across 

 to Ireland. Fig. 

 99 shows the posi- 

 tions of Stations 

 79-93, and the 

 vertical distribu- 

 tionof the different 

 water -masses in 

 their relation to 

 one another on 

 our route from 

 the Newfoundland 

 Bank to Ireland. 

 Near America, on 

 the actual coast 

 bank and just out- 

 side the edge of 

 the bank (Stations 

 75-79), we found 

 only the cold 

 Labrador Current, 

 which descends 

 from Baffin's Bay, 

 follows the coast 

 of Labrador, and 

 sweeps south-west 

 past Newfound- 

 land. Immediately 

 outside St. John's : 

 we met several ice- ; 

 bergsofthekind so ^ 

 familiar to all who \ 

 cross the North 



MICHAEL SARS" 115 

 (i) true Atlantic oceanic 



