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The anticlockwise eddy seen on Figure 50, about 45 miles northeast 

 of the Tail, is an excellent example of a process often to be found 

 along the boundary of two opposing marine flows. We have noted 

 before that when the Labrador current, which hugs the slope, becomes 

 constricted and attenuated, no continuous, uninterrupted streaming 

 of it can possibly prevail. On the other hand, it characteristically is 

 broken up into a chain of eddies and regional circuits, distributed 

 along the continental edge. 



Fig. 50.— Set V. The direction and velocity of the currents, June 9-25, 1927. The drift of two bergs is shown from 



June 11-21, 1927 



The outer current between the forty-fourth and forty-fifth parallels, 

 June 9 to 25, swept in very close to the eastern edge of the Grand 

 Bank, its inner edge at one place being only 5 miles in the offing. 

 The current from there ran due north to latitude 45°, longitude 47° 

 35', and then was bent back to the southeast, apparently by a dis- 

 charge from northern regions between the Bank and the Cap. The 

 outer current after passing this vent recurved toward the north- 

 east, and finally proceeded out of our picture immediately south of 

 Flemish Cap. 



