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a northerly set even to Disko Bay, tlie proportion of original con- 

 stituents are probably very small. The designation of West Green- 

 land Current for the northerly set along the west coast of Greenland 

 avoids any opportunity for a misunderstanding on this point. 



Nielsen's (1928) statement that the East Greenland Polar Current 

 may carry ice as far north as Egedesminde is believed in error. 

 The ice referred to was probably "vestis" (see Smith, 1931, p. 44), 

 which in severe winters drifts eastward across Davis Strait and 



FiGUEB 34. — Temperature profiles across the continental shelf, A2, July 9, 1933 ; B->, 



July 7-13, 1933 



has been reported on the Greenland coast even as far south as 

 Holsteinsborg. 



The Dana's and Godthaah\s sections of temperature extending from 

 Godthaab out into the Labrador Sea (Baggesgaard-Rasmussen and 

 Jacobsen, 1928) and (Conseil Permanent International, 1929), when 

 compared with the corresponding section of the Marion (fig. 20, 

 p. 45), reveals that east Greenland Arctic water does not always 

 hug the slope as might be inferred from the Marion^s observations 

 but may often be present in one of the several branches of the West 

 Greenland Current which turn westward into the Labrador Sea. 



