Expeditions off the Coast of New England. 37 
ce Off Block Island and south of Montauk Point, L. L, in- 
cluding various fishing banks or “ledges,” among which is 
Coxe’s Ledge, about 18 to 20 miles east-southeast from Block 
Island. Among these localities there are both hard gravelly 
and muddy bottoms, gs some that are sandy. The greatest 
depths were 32 to 34 fathom ms, muddy, about 10 miies south- 
east from Block Island (Nos. 161, 162) "and 95 fathoms, sandy, 
about 11 miles southeast from Montauk Point (No. 
Throughout this region the bottom temperatures were found 
to be low (454° to 57° ), and the fauna correspondingly arctic. 
d. The eastern part of Long Island ee from Fisher's 
Island and Gardiner's Island to the mouth of the Connecticut 
River, the depths varying from 8 or 4 to 50 fathoms, the 
deepest water occurring a few miles west of Race Point (see 
Nos. 35, 86, 45, 46), where the tidal currents are very strong 
and the bottom rocky. The bottoms are variable, but mostly 
stony or gravelly, and not unfrequently more or less muddy, 
while the temperature in all the deeper localities was low 
(58° to 62°) and the fauna arctic. 
e. Shallow water localities in the harbors and rnsenpsi near 
Woonk Stonington, ete. ottoms are general] 
and mostly thickly covered with eel-grass (Zostera marin 
J. Gardiner’s Bay, Long Island. The localities were mostly 
sandy ; the depths 8 to 10 fa thoms; and the bottom tempera- 
tures were higher (64° to an and the fauna more southern 
than in the more open sou 
g- Great Peconic and Little Peconic Bays, and Greenport 
Harbor, L. I. In these localities the temperatures were much 
higher (71° to 724°) than those of the other localities examined, 
and the faana was very decidedly southern, including some 
Species not before observed north of Florida and South Car- 
olina. In Little Peconic Bay the bottoms were mostly sandy 
and shelly (mainly Crepidula fornicata, both dead and living), 
and the depths were 4 to 13 fathoms. In Great Peconic Bay 
the water was shallow, 4 to 6 fathoms, and the bottoms muddy 
and rather barren in all the localities examine 
As the faunz of the various kinds of bottoms and shores. 
both of the bays and harbors and of the outer cold waters, have 
been fully described, and most of the species enume 
me, in a recent work, * it will not be necessary to give, at this 
time, more than a summary of those species not meluded.in 
Trays easily Bisco.’ detached. Hundreds of | = = hitherto 
Species were obtained at this locality. At this place two fishes (a species sof 
areas a young hake, Phycis) were often found in the Saris of the Pectens 
es 
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