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band at station 10165; otherwise the temperature was very uniform 

 east of station 10163 above 650 meters, the curve for 15° being 

 almost horizontal at that level, to swing up to the surface near the 

 land as described elsewhere (p. 47). And, again, the temperature 

 was nearly miiform at 1 ,800 meters east of station 10163. But in the 

 middepths there is a very pronomiced upweUing of cold water, 

 revealed by the curves for 5° and 10°, in the center of the profile, 

 between 800 and 1,600 meters. At the western (landward) end of the 

 profile all the curves swing sharply upward, showing a very pronounced 



banking up of cold water agamst the continental slope, which need 

 be merely mentioned here, being discussed at length on page 47, 

 and there was evidently a minor banking up of abyssal water against 

 Bermuda below 1 ,200 meters. Down to the 700-meter level salinity 

 (fig. 12) agrees closely with temperature, the curve for 36°/oo 

 practically coinciding with 15°, the warm surface water at station 

 10164 finding its counterpart in high salinity (36.5°/oo). On the 

 continental slope the successive curves for sahnity dip, Hke those 

 for temperature, very steeply from west to east — i. e., they afford 



