Pe? THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA. [CHAP. TII. 
Greenland, and Loffoten. There can be little doubt 
that this especially arctic character of the fauna is 
maintained by the continual migration of arctic 
species along with the arctic current indicated by 
the depressions in the lines of equal temperature. 
Many species characteristic of the ‘cold area’ were 
not met with beyond its limits, owing doubtless to 
the entire banking in and disappearance of the cold 
water, and the obliteration of the arctic current 
as such at the western opening of the channel 
between the Féeroe banks and the Hebrides. 
THE GOVERNOR'S HOUSE, THORSHAYN. 
