EXPLORATIONS, WESTERN ATLANTIC, STEAMER BACHE, 1914. 7 
temperature charts (Agassiz, 1888; Berghaus, 1891; Deutsche See- 
wahrte, 1882) and the correspondence with Schott’s (1912) chart for 
the month of February is extremely close. Thus there is no reason 
to suppose that the surface temperatures in the winter of 1913-14 
were anything but normal. 
In the eastern half of the region surface salinity (fig. 2) agreed very 
well with surface temperature, being lower than 36.5°/,. to the west 
and southwest of Bermuda; with the curve for 36.5°/,, nearly par- 
alleling the curve of 20° temperature here, and the curve of 36.6°/., 
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Fic. 1.—Surface temperature of the western Atlantic, coast of United States to Bermuda, January to 
March, 1914. 
that for 21°. Water salter than 36.5°/,, formed a very well-defined 
tongue swinging northeastward from the Bahama Bank, the curve 
for 36.4°/,, paralleling the coast line, with water fresher than 35°/,, 
next the land off Cape Hatteras, and probably as far south as north- 
ern Florida. The 36.5°/,.water may be definitely classed as the 
continuation of tho Antilles current, thus agreeing with the tempera- 
ture curves; the slightly fresher water (36—36.4°/,.) west of it as largely 
Florida current water; and the still fresher water next the coast north 
of Florida as coast water. 
