EXPLORATIONS, WESTERN ATLANTIC, STEAMER BACHE, lOU. 37 



where it was 35.3Voo at 200 meters, there was probably a general 

 rise, north to south, from below 35^/oo to about 35.3%o at 600 meters, 

 at the west end of the Straits as well. This rise in salinity, from the 

 Floridan to the Cuban and Bahaman side of the channel, is still 

 traceable at 800 meters, where the salinity rose from 34.85-34.9<^/oo 

 at stations 10200 and 10203 to 35.P/oo off Habana and 35.4Voo off 

 Gun Cay. 



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Fig. 37.— Temperature at 400 meters in the Straits of Florida, March, 1914. 



The future must show whether the salinities outlined above are 

 normal for the Straits, there being no rehable data for comparison; 

 neither, for that matter, are the subsurface salinities known for any 

 part of the Gulf of Mexico, the various hydrometer readings which 

 have been taken there being too high (Kriimmel, 1907, p. 357), nor 



