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THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA. 



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Greenland, and Loffoten. There can be little doub 

 that this especially arctic character of the fauna ii 

 maintained by the continual migration of arcti< 

 species along with the arctic current indicated fy 

 the depressions in the lines of equal temperature 

 Many species characteristic of the c cold area 5 wer< 

 not met with beyond its limits, owing doubtless t( 

 the entire banking in and disappearance of the cole 

 water, and the obliteration of the arctic curren 

 as such at the western opening of the channe 

 between the Fseroe banks and the Hebrides. 



THE GOVKRNOIIS HOUSE, THORSHAVN. 



