32 EXPLORATIONS^ WESTERN ATLANTIC^ STEAMER BACHE, 1914. 



decreased to only 700 meters, the vertical increase is even more rapid 

 than on the Cape Florida line. 



In the profiles (fig. 32, 33) the curves for 15° and 10° tempera- 

 tures and for sahnitics of 36^/oo and less dip from west to east, water 

 of 10° and 35%o rising to within about 200 meters of the surface off 



S** 6 7 8 9 



Temperature, Centigrade 

 10° 11 12 13 14 15° 16 17 18 19 20° 21 22 23 24 



Meter 



100 

 200 

 300 

 400 

 500 

 600 

 700 

 800 



Fig. 30.— Temperature sections between Jupiter Inlet and the Bahama Bank, and east of the latter; 



stations' 10205, 10206, 10207, 10208. 



Jupiter Inlet; and as was the case off Cape Florida, the curves for 

 15° and 36''/oo coincide with each other, but the curve for 20° 

 temperature, which likewise dips near Florida, runs practically 

 horizontal from the center of the channel eastward across the Bahama 

 Bank. The mass of 36.5°/oo water once more appears at 200 meters; 



Meter 



100 

 200 

 300 

 400 

 500 

 600 

 700 

 800 



Fig, 31.— Salinity sections between Jupiter Inlet and the Bahama Bank, and east of the latter; stations 



10205, 10206, 10207, 10208. 



but instead of being limited on the east by a coast line, as was the 

 case in the preceding profiles, it now extends across the northern 

 end of the Bahama Bank, to join the 36.5^/oo surface water farther 

 east (fig. 16). There is no surface water as warm as 24° in this 

 profile; but the dijfference between the warmest readings in it and 



