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Station 10071 was considerably the warmest at all depths above 150 
fathoms of the three stations outside the continental shelf (Figs. 4, 5, 
6) and presented a fairly typical Atlantic curve; the temperature 
falling rapidly at first from 76° at the surface to 58.8° at fifty fathoms; 
then more and more slowly until at the lowest level, 250 fathoms, a 
reading of 43.6 was obtained. Station 10064 was some 6° colder at the 
surface, the difference gradually decreasing downward; but even at 
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250 fathoms it was 2° colder (41.6°). Station 10076 was the most 
southerly of the three, and might, therefore, have been expected to 
be the warmest, as it lay at about the same relative position on the 
‘slope. But as a matter of fact the temperature (49.3°) at 150 fathoms 
‘(the deepest reading) was about the same as that of Station 10071: and 
jabove this level, Station 10076 was considerably the colder of the two. 
