MARION 



EXPEDITION TO DAVIS STRAIT AND BAFFIN BAY 



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more the first warning that the ship was near the Greenland coast 

 was had through sighting islands and breakers in the fog and mist 

 close aboard. 



READY TO LOWER AWAY 



Figure 12. — The water bottle has been clamped to the wire and has 

 a messenger attached to its lower end. This messenger will be 

 free to run down the wire as soon as a similar messenger from 

 the bottle to be [jlaced higher on the wire runs down to strike the 

 top of the bottle shown here. In this manner the bottles are 

 successively tripped after an entire string of them is lowered to 

 the desired depth for observations. 



The afternoon was spent running northward from the inshore sta- 

 tion of the above-mentioned line. As the ship passed the Western 

 Islands and the Wh.alefish Islands occasional breaks in the fog per- 



