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flow over the bottom. And the level at which density is uniform, 
horizontally (twelve fathoms) exactly coincides with the salt tongue 
(p. 198). The profile abreast of Chesapeake Bay (Fig. 61) shows a — 
similar distribution of density over the inner part of the continental 
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shelf. But the seaward rise of density on the bottom is less rapid 
than it is further north; and density is uniform, horizontally, below 
twenty-five fathoms. 
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