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is living present a very marked feature from their 

 great size, are semi-transparent and of a pale pink 

 colour. 



We novp took a run once more to the southward, 

 recrossing the boundary of the cold stream, and 

 sounding successively in 290 fathoms, vrith a bottom 

 temperature of S^'S C, and in 76 fathoms, with a 

 temperature of Q''-4<, practically the same result as 

 in the former case ; and in the next four Stations, 

 80, 81, 82, and 83, we repeated the operation in- 

 versely, sounding in 92 fathoms, with a tempera- 

 ture of 9°-7 C. ; in 142, with 9'-5 ; in 312, with 5°-2 ; 

 and in 362, with 3°-0. 



After a run of about sixty miles in a south-easterly 

 direction nearly parallel with the 100-fathom line, on 

 the naorning of Saturday the 4th of September we 

 sounded in lat. 59° 34' N., long. 6° 34' W., with a 

 depth of 155 fathoms and a temperature of 9°"5 C. 

 Two other Stations after running distances of six 

 and eight miles only took us once more over the 

 edge of the bank and into the cold river, the first 

 giving a depth of 190 fathoms, with a temperature of 

 9°'3, and the second 445 fathoms, and - 1°'0. 



As we were satisfied for the present with our work 

 in the cold area, and as the next day was the day of 

 rest, we steamed quietly westwards for about 100 

 miles, past the Butt of the Lews and beyond the 

 entrance of the channel to Station 87, lat. 59°'35' N., 

 long. 2° 11' W., a point nearly in the middle line of 

 the deep water of the channel, and consequently in 

 the axis of the cold stream, the line in which the 

 peculiarities of the cold area are most pronounced. 

 Here a sounding gave us a depth of 767 fathoms and 



