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Our deepest young-fish trawl was unintentionally towed along 

 the bottom, and came up full of most beautiful bottom-living 

 organisms (0///?>/rrt;, asterids, Phormosoma, pennatulids, crinoids, 

 pycnogonids, lycods, and Macrurtis, as well as many other forms 

 which need not be detailed here). 



We had thus reached the Great Bank of Newfoundland, and 

 had accomplished our task of taking a section right across the 

 Atlantic from the shores of Africa. During the transit we had 

 occupied twenty-nine hydrographical stations, and twenty stations 



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Fig. 94.— "Michael Sars" Stations 69 to 80. 



where we towed pelagic appliances, and had besides carried out 

 many other investigations, so that we had every reason to be 

 satisfied with the results of our venture. 



The coasi batik itself (Fig. 94) offered us a totally different Newfoundland 

 field for study, which no doubt would have proved very interest- ^'''"^'' 

 ing, but unfortunately our time was too short to attempt system- 

 atic researches ; we had to steam for our coaling station, content- 

 ing ourselves with one or two shallow stations on the way. 



Fig. 95 shows the hydrographical conditions from our last 

 true oceanic station (69) to a station (74) just off St. John's. It 

 is extraordinary what a sudden change there is from the warm 

 salt oceanic water to the cold coast water. The curves of 



