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band of water of the same low salinity extending thence along the coast 
of Maine to the Grand Manan Channel. The salinity was 32.5% or 
less over the coast bank west of Nova Scotia; and it is probable that 
the surface of the Bay of Fundy was even fresher than this. The 
curve for 34.4% shows that the direct effect of Penobscot water did _ 
not extend further south than Jeffrey’s Bank (Station 10091), south 
of which it runs in an §, roughly parallel with the coast, crossing the 
southern end of the basin, and thence westward across Nantucket 
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Fie. 45.— Salinity sections in the Gulf of Maine near Platt’s Bank (Station 
10089); along shore between Cape Ann and Penobscot Bay (Stations 
10102, 10103, 10104, 10105) and near Matinicus Island (Station 10101). 
| Shoals. The surface of the eastern half of the Gulf as a whole was 
\salter than 32.6%; the curve for that value outlining a tongue some 
|sixty miles broad, with an eddy-like curve from southeast to north- 
west. Water as salt as this lay close to the land east of Mt. Desert 
Island, and indented westward, as far as Matinicus Island, into the 
Aresher Penobscot water. The curve of 32.6% probably crossed the 
‘mouth of the Bay of Fundy. At any rate it paralleled the western 
shore of Nova Scotia, where it was separated from the land by fresher 
bow (32.45% on Lurcher Shoal). 
