20 EXPLORATIONS, WESTERN ATLANTIC, STEAMER BACHE, 1914. 



station 10158); but east of station 10161 the temperature at this 

 level was nowhere below 18°. Off the mouth of the Straits of Florida 

 and off the northeastern slope of the Bahama Bank (station 10210) 



Fig. 15.— Temperature profile of the upper 1,800 meters, from Florida to a point 200 miles southwest of 



Bermuda. 



the 200-meter temperature rose to 20°, and it was even warmer (22°) 

 in the northeast Providence Channel (station 10196). The course of 

 the curve of 19° is worth notice, since it shows a tonguelike extension 



Fig. 16.— Salinity profile of the upper 1,800 meters, from Florida to a point 200 miles southwest of Bermuda. 



of warm water parallel with the coast, recalling the surface (fig. 1). 

 But this phenomenon was limited to the upper 300 to 400 meters, 

 for at 600 meters (fig. 18) the water was warmest (16°) west of 



