EXPLORATIONS, WESTERN ATLANTIC, STEAMER BACHE, 1914. 7 



temperature charts (Agassiz, 1888; Berghaus, 1891; Deutsche See- 

 wahrte, 1882) and the correspondence with Schott's (1912) chart for 

 the month of February is extremely close. Thus there is no reason 

 to suppose that the surface temperatures in the winter of 1913-14 

 were anything but normal. 



In the eastern haK of the region surface salinity (fig. 2) agreed very 

 well with surface temperature, being lower than 36.5°/oo to the west 

 and southwest of Bermuda; with the curve for 36.5Voo nearly par- 

 alleluig the curve of 20° temperature here, and the curve of 36.6°/oo 



Fig. 1. 



-Surface temperature of the western Atlantic, coast of United States to Bermuda, January to 



March, 1914. 



that for 21°. Water salter than 86.5°/oo formed a very well-defined 

 tongue swinging northeastward from the Bahama Baijk, the curve 

 for 36.4%o paraUeUng the coast line, with water fresher than 357oo 

 next the land off Cape Hatteras, and probably as far south as north- 

 ern Florida. The 36.5°/oo water may be definitely classed as the 

 continuation of tho Antilles current, thus agreeing with the tempera- 

 ture curves; the slightly fresher water (36-36.4°/oo) west of it as largely 

 Florida current water; and the still fresher water next the coast north 

 of Florida as coast water. 



