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hand, and by chilling by the cold water that 

 spreads westward past Cape Sable in the spring, 

 on the other. 



Unfortunately, the August data for 1953 (fig. 

 17) fail to show whether the transition from sur- 



face temperatures as high as 57° to 65° F. off 

 Massachusetts Bay to as low as 54° to 57° along 

 the eastern part of the coast of Maine was as 

 abrupt as the transition was from higher to lower 

 temperatures in the area that the Grampus 



44' 



43' 



42' 



41"  



40°  



PORTLAND^ 



CAPE 

 SABLEi 



 44' 



 43* 



CAPE. 

 ANN 



I ^_-~ 



42" 



41 



40' 



70' 



69' 



68' 



67' 



66 



Figure 17. — Surface temperatures recorded, August 12-19, 1953. (Temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit.) 



