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LABRADOR 



Even in late summer the temperature of the water 

 in the (ice-free) northern fiords remains very low. This 

 fact is illustrated in the groups of serial readings taken 

 during a visit of the same party to Nachvak Bay. One 

 such group is represented in a 



THIRD SERIES 



Locality, on rocky bar three miles east of Hudson's 

 Bay Company station in Nachvak Bay and about seventeen 

 miles from the mouth of the fiord ; 2 P.M. , September 4, 1900. 

 Air temperature, about 12.5 C. (44.5 F.). 



From these (hitherto unpublished) observations obtained 

 in 1900, it appears that the water of the northern fiords, 

 at depths greater than about twenty fathoms, never rises 

 sensibly above the freezing-point of fresh water. 



There is little doubt that the cod does not travel far in 

 its annual migration. After spawning, the school simply 

 moves out into deeper water on the slopes of the con- 

 tinental plateau or on the Grand Banks. There in depths 

 of from eighteen to seventy fathoms they browse about. 



