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MARION AND GENERAL GREENE EXPEDITIONS 



Farewell. Comparison between figure 8 and the velocity profiles for 

 the Godthaab and Holsteinsborg sections (fig. 10) shows that this 

 warm and salty Avater, bounded by the 4° and 5° isotherms and the 

 34.50%o isohaline, extended northwestward to the southern slopes of 

 Little Hellefiske Bank where it probably turned westward. 



Figure 14. — Salinity at the surface July 30-September 3, 1928. 



Inshore against the slope of Fylla Bank at the 100-meter level 

 (fig. 15) lay vestiges of east Greenland Arctic water as marked by 

 the 2° isotherm. The temperatures and salinitias contained on the 

 Holsteinsborg section at 100 meters (fig. 15 and fig. 16) indicate an 

 area entirely different in physical character, with cooling and fresh- 

 ening which probably emanated from the Baffin Land Current. 



