104 COURSE OF THE EAST GREENLAND CURRENT. 



The logbooks which I have examined afford no positive infor- 

 mation as to the direction and force of the current under con- 

 sideration — a circumstance which must be attributed to the fre- 

 quency of fogs and gales of wind, which prevent correct observations 

 being made. 1 



From the foregoing it seems to me to be demonstrated that the 

 current from the ocean around Spitzbergen, which carries so con- 

 siderable masses of ice, after it has passed along the e. coast of 

 Greenland, turns westward and northward round Cape Farewell, 

 without detaching any branch to the south-westward, directly towards 

 the banks of Newfoundland. 



This current afterwards runs northward along the s.w. coast of 

 Greenland until about lat. 6-4° n., and at times even up to Hol- 

 steinborg, which is in about 67° N. 



This current undoubtedly afterwards, by turning to the west- 

 ward, unites with the current coming from Baffin and Hudson 

 Bays, running to the southward on the western side of Davis Strait 

 along the coast of Labrador, and thus increases that enormous 

 quantity of ice which is brought towards the s. to Newfoundland 

 and further down in the Atlantic Ocean, frequently disturbing and 

 endangering the navigation between Europe and Northern America. 



eaten mahogany log off the s.e. coast of Greenland. These in all probability were 

 transported from the s.w. by the Gulf-stream. Captain Sir Edward Parry, in his 

 second voyage, September 24th, 1823, picked up a piece of yellow pine quite 

 sound, in lat. 60° 30', long. 61° 30' w.; and on his third voyage seven pieces of 

 driftwood were found in the vicinity of Cape Farewell. Again, Captain Sir John 

 Ross found much driftwood around Cape Farewell ; and Captain Sir George 

 Back saw in lat. 56° 50', long. 36° 30', a tree with the roots and bark on. These 

 instances might be multiplied, but their character indicates a southern origin. — Ed. 



1 Sir John Ross, in his first voyage, May 23, found the current to run 6 m. per 

 day to the w.n.w. in lat. 57° 2' and long. 43° 21' w. (or about 168 m. s. of Cape 

 Farewell), and n.w. when 140 m. s. by w. of the Caj>e. 



Sir Edward Parry, on June 19, 1819, when 130 m. due w. of Cape Farewell, 

 found its direction and velocity to be s. 50° w. 6 m. per diem. — Ed. 



