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Figure 11.— Velocity piotiles of the West Greenland Current expressed in centimeters per 

 second. The solid lines represent northerly current and the broken lines southerly 

 current. Section Fi, August 7, 1928 ; .section (i, August 13-14, 1928. 



received water from northward in Baffin Bay, and station 995, lo- 

 cated at the onter end of the Egedesminde section, show^ed this cur- 

 rent as additional to the West Greenland Current from the south. 

 On the other hand it should be noted from the current map (fig. 8), 

 that part of the West Greenland Current revealed on the Holsteins- 

 borg section followed Davis Strait Channel directly into Baffin Bay, 

 The distribution of the 1.3-million-cubic-meters-per-second trans- 



