EXPLORATIONS, WESTERN ATLANTIC, STEAMER BACHE, 1914. 35 



east side of the channel, the curves for 35.5 and 36°/oo suggesting, 

 although they do not precisely reproduce, the curves for 10° and 

 15° temperatures, respectively. The lack of data from the mid- 

 depths at station 10201 leaves the possibility open that there 

 may have been a tongue of still Salter water at the west end of the 

 channel, to correspond with the tongue of high temperature there. 



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Fig. 35.— Temperature in the Straits of Florida at 200 meters, March, 1914. 



At 600 meters, however (fig. 39), the warm water at station 10201 

 has lost its tonguelike character, being continuous with the general 

 temperature (12°-13°) of the southeastern and eastern parts of the 

 Straits. At this level the water was 7°-10° along the Florida side 

 of the channel, and there was a second cold area off Habana (9°-10°), 

 apparently a tongue from the west. 



