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salinity has averaged higher, most of the determinations falling between 34 per mille 
and about 34.5 per mille, with the highest readings localized along the eastern and 
northern slope and the lowest (33.4 to 33.6 per mille) in its southwestern side 
(stations 10249, Aug. 13, 1914, and 10309, Sept. 1, 1915). 
Fiq. 149. — Salinity at a depth of 175 meters for August. 1913 (encircled figures), and for July 19 to August 26, 1914 (plain 
figures). Data for the Bay of Fuudy from Craigie (1916a) 
The midsummer charts, compared with the state of the gulf in June (p. 762), 
suggest an interesting seasonal progression, with the slope water of high salinity 
(34 per mille) spreading inward from the channel over the bottom, to occupy all the 
