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from the channel (34.4 per mille), to about 33.6 per mille in the northeastern corner 
of the gulf. 
At still deeper levels the distribution of salinity becomes increasingly governed 
by the contour of the bottom as this more and more confines the;.’inflowing slope 
water. Thus the latter (34 per mille) was not only directed more into the eastern 
arm of the Y-shaped trough at 175 meters than into the western in 1914 (fig. 149), 
but hugged the eastern slope of the former, making it the site of an anticlockwise 
