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the slope of the bank to the westward of longitude 68° on February 22 (stations 

 20044 and 20045), as it apparently had off New Jersey on February 21 (station 20043), 

 it was not separated from the edge of the continent there by more than 10 miles of 

 lower salinities at the 100-meter level at that time. 



FiQ. 94.— Salinity at a depth of 130 meters, Febraary 22 to March 24, 1920 



The agreement between the March charts for temperature (p. 526, fig. 13) and 

 for salinity at 100 meters (fig. 94) is remarkably close in the eastern side of the gulf, 

 the two combined affording evidence as good as could be asked that warm saline 

 water was then actually flowing into the gulf along the eastern side of the Eastern 



