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Temperatur skyder sig op langs Spidsbergens Vestkyst. 
Østhavets Bund dækkes af forholdsvis varmt og saltholdigt 
Vand. 
Paa Pl. XXXVI til XXXVIII er fremstillet den 
specifiske Vægts Fordeling i Dybet i de samme større 
verticale Tversnit som Temperaturen i Pl. X til XIV. 
Tversnittene for den specifiske Vægt ere nummererede med 
samme Tal som de for Temperaturen. 
I Tversnit VIII, Pl. XXXVI, mellem Berufjord paa 
Island og Christiansund, se vi den højeste specifiske Vægt, 
1.0270, ved Mundingen af Færø-Shetland-Renden, fra Over- 
fladen til Bunden. Henimod Norges Kyst aftager den speci- 
fiske Vægt, og er højere i Dybet end i Overfladen. Det 
samme tinder Sted henimod Island, men i meget svagere Grad. 
Tversnit X gaar fra Langanes paa Island til, den 
65. Breddegrad ved Norges Kyst. Snittets østligste Del er 
ført op paa noget højere Bredde (Tversnit XI, Pl. X) end 
Temperatursnittet Pl. X, da der i dette mangler Maalin- 
ger af den specifiske Vægt. Den højeste specifiske Vægt i 
dette Tversnit er noget over 1.0268, og denne er indskræn- 
ket til de øvre Lag; mod Dybet aftager den specifiske 
Vægt meget langsomt. Mod Øst og mod Vest aftager den 
og bliver under Kysterne lavest i Overfladen. 
I Tversnit XIII, fra Jan Mayen-Renden til Trænan, 
er det af Linien for den specifiske Vægt 1.0268 omslut- 
tede Rum end mere indskrænket. Linien for 1.0267, der 
i det forrige Tversnit naaede Bunden i Midten af Havet, 
er her løftet op til 300 Favnes Dyb. I dette Tversnit er 
der aabenbart kommet mindre saltholdigt Vand ind fra 
Jan Mayen-Renden i dybere Lag. Over de norske Kyst- 
banker ligger der ferskere Vand øverst. 
Tversnit XV, Pl. XX XVII, gaar fra Jan Mayen til 
Vesteraalen. Linien for den specifiske Veet 1.0267, der 
i forrige Tversnit kun naaede til 300 Favnes Dyb, sænker 
sig her til 1600 Favnes Dyb og naar næsten Bunden i 
Havets Midte. Til begge Sider aftager den specifiske Vægt, 
sterkest under Kysterne af Norge og Jan Mayen (Polar- 
strømmen). 
Tversnit XVII, fra Grønland til Loppen, har sit 
Maximum af specifisk Vægt, over 1.0266, i den østre Del 
af Havet. Lignende Forhold finder Sted i de følgende Snit. 
Det er ved Havbundens østre Skraaninger, at det salteste 
Vand findes, og under Overfladen. I Temperaturens For- 
deling have vi noget tilsvarende, dog ligger Temperaturens 
Maximum højere, nærmere Overtladen, end den specifiske 
Vægts. 
I Tversnit XIX, fra Grønland til Beeren Hiland, 
ligger Maximum af specifisk Vægt udenfor Bankens Skraa- 
ning strax 1 Vest for Beeren Hiland og naar, ic. 350 Favnes 
Dyb, til lidt over 1.02653. Den specifiske Vægt aftager 
of salt. A long, narrow tongue having a higher propor- 
tion of salt and a higher temperature shoots up along the 
west coast of Spitzbergen. The bed of the Barents Sea 
is covered with comparatively warm and salt water. 
In Pl. XXXVI to Pl. XXXYVIII, is represented 
the distribution of specific gravity in the deep through- 
out the same larger vertical sections as temperature in 
Pl. X to Pl. XIV. The sections for specific gravity are 
numbered with the same figures as those for temperature. 
In transverse section VIII, Pl. XXXVI, between Beru- 
fjord in Iceland and Christiansund, we have the highest spec- 
ific grayity, viz., 1.0270, at the mouth of the Færoe-Shetland 
Channel, from the surface to the bottom. Towards the coast 
of Norway, the specitic gravity is found to diminish, and to 
The same takes 
place towards Iceland, though to a much less extent. 
be higher in the deep than at the surface. 
Transverse section X extends from Langanes, Iceland, 
to the coast of Norway at the 65th parallel of latitude. 
The most easterly part of the section has been directed 
to a somewhat higher latitude (Transverse Section XI, 
Pl. X) than the section for temperature, Pl. X, since 
measurements of specific gravity are wanting in the latter. 
The highest specific gravity m this transverse section rises 
to a little above 1.0268, and is confined to the upper strata; 
towards the deep, the specific grayity diminishes very slowly. 
Towards the east and towards the west it also diminishes, 
becoming off the coasts lowest at the surface. 
In transverse section XIII, the Jan-Mayen 
Channel to Trænan, the space enclosed by the line for 
a specific gravity of 1.0268 is still more circumscribed. 
from 
The line for 1.0267, which in the former transverse section 
reached the bottom in the middle of the sea, 
here to a depth of 300 fathoms. Into this 
section, less salt water has apparently found its way from 
the Jan-Mayen Channel in the deeper strata. Over the 
Norway coastal banks, water with a less proportion af salt 
rises up 
transverse 
les uppermost. 
Transverse section XV, Pl. XX XVII, extends from 
Jan Mayen to Vesteraalen. The line for a specific gravity of 
1.0267, which in the former transverse section did not reach 
lower than 300 fathoms, attains here a depth of 1600, and 
sinks to well-nigh the bottom in the middle of the sea. On 
both sides, the specific gravity diminishes most rapidly off 
the coasts of Norway and Jan Mayen (the Polar Current). 
Transverse section XVII, from Greenland to Loppen, 
has its maximum of specific gravity, viz., upwards of 
1.0266, in the eastern part of the sea. Similar conditions 
are observed in the following sections. It is along the 
declivities of the sea-bed that the saltest water 
In the distribution of the 
temperature, we meet with something akin, though the maxi- 
eastern 
occurs, and below the surface. 
mum of temperature lies higher, rather more in proximity 
to the surface, than does that of specific gravity. 
In transverse section XIX, from Greenland to Beeren 
Filand, the of specific gravity lies off the 
declivity of the bank, immediately to the west of Beeren 
Eiland, and reaches, at a depth of about 350 fathoms, a 
maximum 
