

The normal circulation ot'thc polai- regi 



sur^e of the oceaii.Biit the chart \*'as di*a 



IroiD tte opjioshi? ilir»?i."tion, flows onwards t 



suppositioa.lln' esteut to which the nomjal 



practical observatiou.The letters retei- toFlatesKajia-IIlii. 



The noi-mal surface pres8ure from the nortH east may be the pi-epoudei-aling' fo 



Ocean.fbr it tends to camr the ice of the Palseocrvstic Sea vrestwards. 



X ate. 



s which the Earths rotatiou tcuds to cause is noith eastwards ttnvai-ds the pol( 



in 1866 OQ the sxqjpositioQ that the flow of water- nurthwai-ds (rom llie Adantic 



ise to the surface ag^iinst the uDrthem shores of Asia ,aad the i-ed and Wue ai 



■culatioii of the polar region \s deranged hr,' the preponderance of the influx ot 





the imder sU-ai 



be undei- strata, no 



rshave now 18* » 



er fixjm the Atlantii 

 and the'Uue surface currents.as in lie latter Hate . 

 in higher latitudes th.an have yet been oplored.but it is not the prepoiidei*alij.g' in 



south westwards fixmAepde f 



le^tin^ an equal flow towai'ds the pole 

 een ;ulded in accordance with that 

 de is a question lo l>e detei-minea iw" 



3 the Arctic 



