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Water fresher than 32%o was restricted to a narrow zone close to shore, 

 extending from just north of Cape Ann to Monhegan Island, broadest 

 (twenty-five miles) off Cape Elizabeth. 



In general there was a rise of surface salinity from west to east 

 across the Gulf, the water being 32.5%o some sixty miles off Cape Cod; 



Fig. 44. — SaUnity sections in the Gulf of Maine, from Massachusetts Bay to 

 the eastern basin (Stations 10087, 10088, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10106). 



32.6%o in the centre of the Gulf, and 32.7%o near the Nova Scotia 

 coast bank. But the increase was far from uniform, the course of the 

 curves being distorted by an outrush of comparatively fresh water 

 (32.2%o to 32.5%o) off the west mouth of Penobscot Bay, and by a 



