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In the fourth profile, off Barnegat (Fig. 12), the water on the shelf 

 was warmer, its minimum being 48° on the bottom at 40-50 fathoms. 

 But on the slope it was only below 150 fathoms that the water was as 



Fig. 13. 



Fig. 13. — Temperature profile across 

 the continental shelf 45 miles south of 

 Delaware Bay (Stations 10079 and 

 10074). 



Fig. 14. — Temperature profile across 

 the continental shelf to the edge of the 

 Gulf Stream abreast of Chesapeake 

 Bay (Stations 10078, 10077. 10076). 



Fig. 14. 



cold as this. And probably there was a belt of bottom water of 50°- 

 55° at about 100 fathoms, to judge from the other profiles. But there 

 is no bottom reading at this level. In the upper part of the profile 



