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continental slope. Equally high bottom temperatures on the upper part of the 

 slope in the latitude of Chesapeake Bay (station 20041), off Delaware Bay (station 

 20042), and off New York (station 20043), that same February, also off Chesapeake 



Temperature, Centigrade 



,<, 2" 3° 4° 5° 6° T 8° 9° 10° IT 12° 13° 14° 15° 16° 17° 



Fig. 9.— Vertical distribution of temperature in tlie eastern side of tlie basin of the Gulf of Maine. A, 

 March 3, 1920 (station 20054); B, April 17, 1920 (station 20113); 0, March 28, 1919 (Ice Patrol Station No. 

 3); D, May 6, 1915 (station 10270); E, Jtine 19, 1915 (station 10286); F, August 7, 1915 (station 10304); G, 

 September 1, 1915 (station 10309). The broljen curve is for January 6, 1921 (station 10502) 



Bay in January, 1914 (Bigelow, 1917a, p. 60), make it likely that a warm band of 

 this sort (often spoken of as the "inner edge of the Gulf Stream") touches the bot- 

 tom along this depth zone throughout most winters. The March profile of the 



