46 EXPLORATIONS, WESTERN ATLANTIC, STEAMER BACHE, 1914. 
instead of on the surface. Over the 200-meter contour, always an 
important zone off the United States coast because of the abrupt 
change in the slope of the bottom at this level, the temperature 
was highest at the middepth (station 10160, 100 meters, 12°), with 9° 
both on the surface and on the bottom, the latter several degrees 
warmer than the bottom temperature near the coast, in spite of the 
ereater depth (fig. 47). The salinity (fig. 48) also was considerably 
higher, with a rapid vertical increase from the surface downward 
to 35.37°/,. on the bottom. Over the 1,800-meter contour, a few 
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miles outside the continental shelf (station 10158, fig. 47), the water 
was warmer, depth for depth, being nearly uniform at 11°-12° down. 
to 300 meters, below which level there was a rapid cooling to about 5° 
at 700 meters, followed by a slow decrease of temperature to 3.55° 
at 1,800 meters. However, there was no water at this station 
(fig. 23) as salt as the bottom water over the outer edge of the shelf, 
the highest salinity being only about 35.19°/,. at 300 meters, with 
a slow decrease below this level. Near the surface the course of 
ee salinity section is noteworthy, the water being freshest at 20 
meters, not on the surface. Eighty-five miles farther Nicer (station 
