CHAP, v.] 



GENERAL CONCLUSIONS. 



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ture in the layer extending from the belt of comparatively con- 

 stant temperature to the surface, on our first section from Ten- 



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Fig. 53.— a Page of the Temperatnre Cnrve-book, for Station CCCXXV. 



eriffe to Sombrero, we found the temperatures below the 100- 

 fathom line very uniform, the upper isothermobaths crowding 

 together a little, and the lower slightly rising to the westward. 



