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this same sort and of about the same salinity (33 to 33.2 per mille) also character- 
ized the 40-meter level in August, 1913 (fig. 146); and while the most saline water 
(33 per mille) did not form so definite a tongue in 1912 (Bigelow, 1914), a regional 
distribution of the type just described has reappeared frequently enough on the 
charts for various levels, months, and years to establish it as normal for the gulf. 
Densities determined by Craigie (1916a) for August 27 to 29, 1914, when 
reduced to terms of salinity also show this saline water (33 per mille) curving into 
