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continental slope. Equally high bottom temperatures on the upper part of the 
slope in the latitude of Chesapeake Bay (station 20041), off Delaware Bay (station 
20042), and off New York (station 20043), that same February, also off Chesapeake 
Temperature, Centigrade 
3); D, May 6, 1915 (station 10270); E, June 19, 1915 (station 10286); F, August 7, 1915 (station 10304); G, 
September 1, 1915 (station 10309). The broken curve is for January 5, 1921 (station 10502) 
Bay in January, 1914 (Bigelow, 1917a, p. 60), make it likely that a warm band of 
this sort (often spoken of as the “inner edge of the Gulf Stream”) touches the bot- 
tom along this depth zone throughout most winters. The March profile of the 
