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tions are sufficient to delineate the limits to which this bottom in 

 trusion extended on the Grand Bank. On the southern part of thd 

 Bank we found an area of approximately 2,000 square miles wherti 

 the bottom water was warmest and freshest of any on the Grand 



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Bank. It had a temperature of 4.8^-3,3° and a salinity of 32.74 ^/o,,. 

 This water was purely local in character, a tidal reservoir Avhich had 

 remained free from external intrusions the entire winter of 1923-24 

 at least. It was noted that the low-salinity water exhibited a marked 

 ten^.^ncy to spread outward on the southern part of the Bank and its 



''7iifineiiqe' i§ seen in the bottom water at station 497, off the southwest 



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