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the next station was reached in Lat. 33° 18' and Long. 14° 10' W. |* ation 

 A fine bright day, with fresh breeze from the N., and a heavy swell, 

 too great for successful working of the closing-net ; water samples 

 and temperatures only were taken, down to 1,600 fathoms. 



Making for the next station, in Lat. 33° 45' N., Long. 13° 03' W., 

 good progress was made until midnight, when a heavy squall from 

 north-north-east compelled a shortening of sail. The station was 35 _ 

 reached at 8 a.m., and with a very heavy swell from the north-east, 

 the attempts to use the closing-net at 1,000 and at 800 fathoms were 

 not very successful, though the net evidently had worked perfectly. 

 At 500 fathoms, and successive hauls to the surface, there was more 

 stuff, but on the whole the hauls were comparatively poor. 



On August 11, at 8 a.m., the next station was reached in nff 10 " 

 Lat. 34° 16' and Long. 11° 57' W., with a nice little breeze all night 

 from the north. At this station the temperatures were remarkable, 

 being at 600 fathoms 10-8°, and from 500 to 300 fathoms identical — 

 viz., 11-1°. 



250 fathoms 1L7°. 



300 

 350 

 400 

 500 



11-2°. 



11-1°. 

 11-1°. 

 11-1°. 



Being usually about 2° of difference at each of these depths, it 

 was thought that possibly the thermometer had not been clown long 

 enough, but on being lowered a second time and kept in situ for ten 

 minutes, the result was exactly the same. The occurrence of this 

 wedge of warm water was peculiar. 



On August 12, after a very light wind, this station, Lat. 34° 12' N., | 37 a 10n 

 Long. 11° 05' W., forty-four miles from the last, was reached, and 

 tow-nettings made with the closing-net at every 100 fathoms upwards 

 from 500, and temperature observations from 1,200 fathoms. The 

 temperature at 500 fathoms is here seen to be nearly a degree lower 

 than at the last station, the wedge of warm water evidently less thick. 



On August 13 this station was reached, in Lat. 34° 43' N., Long, g^ tl0n 



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