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than in the preceding profile, the bottom sahnity in fifteen fathoms 

 being 33.86%o as against 33.14%o, with 34%o as against 33.5%o on 

 the bottom at the twenty-five fathom curve. The shallower layers, 

 too, are salter, depth for depth, than north of Delaware Bay. 



A similar shoreward intrusion of 35%o water into the intermediate 



iG. 42. — Salinity profile across the continental shelf to the edge of the Gulf 

 Stream, abreast of Chesapeake Bay (Stations 10078, 10077, 10076). 



