PHYSICAL OCEANOGKAPHY OF THE GULF OF MAINE 
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Temperatures higher than 15° are always to be expected only a few miles outside 
the edge of the continent during July and August at 40 meters, as illustrated by our 
station data for 1914 (fig. 53), but there is no evidence that the 40-meter stratum 
Fig. 53. — Temperature at a depth o! 40 meters for July- August, 1914. North of the heavy broken line (Cape Cod to Capo 
Sable) the chart represents the state of the gulf from August 11 to 24; south of it, for July, combined with August. 
The Bay of Fundy temperatures are from Craigie (1916b) 
ever warms to so high a temperature as this anywhere within the 200-meter 
contour abreast the Gulf of Maine. 
