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is living present a very marked feature from their 
great size, are semi-transparent and of a pale pink 
colour. 
We now took a run once more to the southward, 
recrossing the boundary of the cold stream, and 
sounding successively in 290 fathoms, with a bottom 
temperature of 5°3C., and in 76 fathoms, with a 
temperature of 9°-4, practically the same result as 
in the former case; and in the next four Stations, 
80, 81, 82, and 83, we repeated the operation in- 
versely, sounding in 92 fathoms, with a tempera- 
ture of 9°°7 C.; in 142, with 9°:5; in: 312, with b 2; 
and in 362, with 3°:0. 
After a run of about sixty miles in a south-easterly 
direction nearly parallel with the 100-fathom line, on 
the morning of Saturday the 4th of September we 
sounded in lat. 59° 34° N., long. 6° 34 W., with a 
depth of 155 fathoms and a temperature of 9°5 C. 
Two other Stations after running distances of six 
and eight miles only took us once more over the 
edge of the bank and into the cold river, the first 
ceiving a depth of 190 fathoms, with a temperature 
of 9°°3, and the second 445 fathoms, and — 1°0. 
As we were satisfied for the present with our work 
in the cold area, and as the next day was the day of 
rest, we steamed quietly westwards for about 100 
miles, past the Butt of the Lews and beyond the 
entrance of the channel to Station $7, lat. 59° 35’ N., 
long. 2°11’ W., a point nearly in the middle line of 
the deep water of the channel, and consequently in 
the axis of the cold stream, the line in which the 
peculiarities of the cold area are most pronounced. 
Here a sounding gave us a depth of 767 fathoms and 
