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Nova Scotia in as close an embrace as it does 
Iceland and Greenland at tbe present. 
The weather had not been of the best ; cold winds, 
with occasional snow and rain, greeted ns during the 
time at our disposal here ; yet we would fain have 
made a longer stay amongst such kind friends, of 
whom it is a pleasure to speak. There was a good- 
ness and cordiality with their hospitality and warm- 
heartedness that can never be forgotten by those 
who know them. 
On the 19 th May, we steamed out of the harbour, 
and before nightfall the coast was out of sight. 
On clearing the land a section was commenced 
in almost a straight line to Bermuda. The serial 
temperatures taken during the passage were ex- 
tremely instructive and important, showing, as they 
do, that a belt of warm water of a temperature of 65°, 
and nearly 400 fathoms in thickness, extends from 
the eastern margin of the Gulf Stream to within a 
short distance of the West Indies, encircling the 
Bermudas, and actually raising the average tempera- 
ture of its superficial water above that of the corre- 
sponding layer some 650 miles further south. It 
also proved that the cold surface current running 
to the southward along the American coast merely 
lowered the temperature of the intermediate strata, 
the bottom water not being in the least affected by it. 
In fact, the results of the temperature observations 
already obtained seem to indicate that the cold water 
