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crossed the llockall Cliannol'. This drift seems to explain the occurrence of large quan- 

 tities of pelagic haddock fry etc. found by the "Thor" in the Rockall Channel over great 

 depths (St. 1:^—18, 1908, cfr. also the capture of a pelagic cod young at St. 72, 1905) 

 and further it makes it probable or at least possible that a part of the gadoids living 

 along the western coasts of the British Isles have been spawned on the Kockall Bank and 

 thence drifted over the Kockall Channel. 



' Generally, thej' have moved in a somewhat more southerly direction than expected by me. 



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