- BIGELOW: COAST WATER EXPLORATION OF 19138. 185 
Evidently then, the immediate coast water from Cape Elizabeth to 
and across the mouth of Penobscot Bay was distinctly warmer than 
the coast water further south, or than the water off shore, water 
colder than 42° being limited, on thenortheast by the slope of Jeffrey’s 
Bank. We have no means of knowing how far south water colder 
than 42° may have extended in August. But the fact that in early 
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Fig. 28.— Temperature profile across the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, from 
the coast of Maine (Station 10098) to German Bank (Station 10095) cross- 
ing the northern end of the basin (Station 10097). 
luly it filled the basin off Cape Cod, from thirty fathoms to bottom, 
uggests that it reached the northwestern side of Georges Bank, though 
srobably underlaid by warmer water in the southern part of the basin, 
ust as at Station 10088. 
_ A profile from the basin toward the Bay of Fundy (Fig. 27) shows 
ee vertical tidal mixing was effective from German Bank to Lurcher 
he diminishing toward the north, to reappear again off the coast of 
Taine (Fig. 28). 
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