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considered. Also the general agreement of the deductions of the theory 

 with the peculiarities of the temperature distribution, such as the 

 breadth of the cold-water belt, the magnitude of the reduction of the 

 temperature below the normal, the location of the coldest area etc. is 

 very satisfactory. So it seems, on the w r hole that the rather severe 

 test of the theory has proved it to be at least approximately, correct 

 and to be well worthy of a detailed quantitative investigation. 



40 80 120 



Distance from Coast in Kilometers. 



Station No. I. 



Station No. 2. 



Station No. 3. 



Station A/o. 4. 



160 



200 240 280 320 



Fig. 15. 



Leaving the consideration of the temperature distribution on a 

 large scale, some results of observations confined to a limited area will 

 now be examined in the light of the new theory. During the summer 

 months for several years numerous temperature observations (17) close 

 to the coast from latitude 28 to latitude 34 have indicated abnor- 

 mally cold water, several temperatures being from 13 to 14. A ra- 

 pid fall of 2 or 3 has been occasionally noted. For example (18) in 

 the summer of 1903, of the Coronado pier repeated observations taken 

 at 10 A. M. indicated a temperature of 20, but on July 27 the value 

 16,2 w r as observed, and continued for three days, after which the 



