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viz, Matthews (1914) ; Iselin (1930) ; and Conseil Permanent Inter- 

 national (1929) and (1933). In each one of the Scotia's three slope 

 stations, between Belle Isle and St. John's, the water at mid-depths 

 averaged about a half-degree Centigrade colder than similar slope 

 stations taken at about the same time of the year in 1928, 1931, 1933, 



^° 100 METERS 



FiGUKE 84. — Temperature anti salinity at surface and 100 meters July o-ll, 1934. 



and 1934. Otherwise the Scotia's and the Coast Guard's data are in 

 good general agreement. Iselin 's (1930) two cross sections of the 

 Labrador Current, the one taken off Xachvak Fiord and the other off 

 Sandwich Bay, are typical and similar to subsequent ones made by 

 the Coast Guard and already fully described in this chapter. The 

 more numerous and widely distributed observations now reported 

 permit amplifications to be made particularly with regard to the 



