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a (listaneo, of 5o miles oll'shore from the slope, and to a depth of 175 

 meters (90 fathoms), we encountered a water mass of unusually 



uniform salinity, the precise figure, 33.15^/oy-33.45''/oo, being that 

 characteristic of the most southerly extension of the Labrador Cur- 



