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having backed to south and freshening, along with rain, which came 

 down very heavily at last. 



After a dirty night of rain and a heavy sea, at 6 a.m. the next station 5. 

 station was reached in Lat. 48°27'N., Long. 15° 38' W. It was 8 a.m. 

 before the wind and sea had moderated enough to allow of work com- 

 mencing. Then the water-bottle was lowered to 1,570 fathoms, and 

 seven water samples and fourteen samples for gas analysis were 

 taken, and the closing-net was put down to 1,400 fathoms. It took 

 fifty minutes to haul it up again, and it had opened and shut quite 

 satisfactorily. 



Continuing the course through the night, Station 6, in Lat. 48° 12' N., Station 6. 

 Long. 16° 26' W., was reached, and the ship laid to at 8 a.m., only 

 30 miles from the last station, and with the sea rather rough and a 

 long, heavy swell from the west, the closing-net was lowered to 

 1,500 fathoms. Hauling up occupied an hour, and though the net 

 appeared to have worked cpiite properly, there was very little in it. A 

 second attempt at the same depth was no more successful, the entire 

 contents being a few Copepoda and a small Medusa. It was then 

 lowered to 1,200 fathoms and towed for fifteen minutes, with no better 

 result. At 900 fathoms there was a little more, and at 700 fathoms 

 a similar result ; at 500 fathoms the haul was much better, and at 

 400 fathoms it was very successful. The unsuccessful results of the 

 hauls from 500 to 1,500 fathoms were probably due to the heavy 

 swell, which, causing the net to ride up and down, is unfavourable for 

 tow-netting. That the net had been at the proper depths was indicated 

 by the temperatures of the thermometers attached to the frame, viz., 

 1,500 fathoms, 3-1° C. ; 12,000, 3"5° C. ; 900, 4-2° C, ; 700, 6-4° C. ; 

 500, 8-5° C, ; 400, 9-4° C. ; 200, 10"2° C. ; 100, 10-5° C. ; 0, 14-5° C. 



On June 28, 1904, Station 7 was reached at Lat. 47° 28' N., Long, station 7. 

 17° 07' W., after a long beat to windward, with thick fog and a very 

 heavy westerly swell ; and after waiting hove-to for some hours in hopes 

 that wind and sea would go down, an attempt was made to use the 

 tow-net. After having lowered to 1,500 fathoms, and commencing to 

 heave up, the flange on the winch, which keeps the wire on the drum, 



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