ere pvr.ilr.tle bctveen the surfrce rnd ebout 100 iseters. 

 v'e hcd relied upon our be thythermogrc:ph here; its mal- 

 functioning lerves v most serious grp in the dstr. The 

 bottom profile shovm here rnd in fig. A w?.s constructed 

 frora our wire soundings off Frt-sh Crtek end he s not been 

 extended to the New Providence coest as tiae did not permit 

 trhing soundings off thrt shore. 



The Salinity profile from the same strtions is shown 

 in fig. A- 



The te.mptrc turc-sr.linity dir.grrm (fig. 5) for these 

 stations combined with rll other £v; ilr-ble d? ta^ shows 

 thrt for temperr tures below 16 '^ found £t ■:. depth of 500 

 meters, the T S curve cpp^rrs to be idcnticrj "ifith thrt 

 shovm by Islin (1936) for the Srrgrsso Bee. Between 16*^ 

 snd 18 , the Tongue of the Oce.;'.n vrater is- slightly, but 

 probc.bly not .signlfic? ntly less Scline. Urter wfrmer thrn 

 18'^, found cbove rbout 300 meter, shows very little cor- 

 relation between temper? ture .:nd Sc Unity, 



Sm.ith (19.40) showed thrt wrrm, high srlinity writer 

 is produced over ft ler st prrt of the Erhcma Brnks. !■© 

 found such'wcter (29.o'^ pn\ 37.8?.°/oo)- et str.. 36 on the 

 bank south of the w-'st^^rn end of Nevr Providence. Sta . 34., 

 two miles south of Gou]ding Cay and about in equal distance 

 to leeward of the banl-:, shows a surface salinity of 

 36.54°/oo7 one salinity maximum of 3V.06°/oo at 51 meters 

 and another less pronounced maximum of 36.66*^/00 at 



