. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. 402 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. near Cape Porpoise is important as showing that there is a south- westerly long-shore movement of the river water at this season, its chief sources on this part of the coast being the Merrimac, the Kenne- bec, and possibly the Penobscot. And this agrees with our sum- mer data (Loc. cit., p. 91), as well as with the common report of a "spring current" flowing across the mouth of Casco Bay from north- east to southwest. The Merrimac water evidently flows ar
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. 402 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. near Cape Porpoise is important as showing that there is a south- westerly long-shore movement of the river water at this season, its chief sources on this part of the coast being the Merrimac, the Kenne- bec, and possibly the Penobscot. And this agrees with our sum- mer data (Loc. cit., p. 91), as well as with the common report of a "spring current" flowing across the mouth of Casco Bay from north- east to southwest. The Merrimac water evidently flows around Cape Ann; but that it hardly enters Massachusetts Bay, is shown by the comparatively high salinities encountered by Mr. Douthart (p. 419), while summer salinities suggest that it must swing eastward off Cape Ann. It is not known of course, how closely the changes outlined above are reproduced in other years; but to judge from the climate of the neighboring land mass, there is every reason to assume that they represent the normal cycle, though no doubt there are slight differ- ences in salinity and temperature from year to year. The Georges Bank records show that the water was considerably warmer there in April than it was close to the western coast of the Gulf at the same season; and Salter than the latter is at any season. Furthermore the Bank water showed no sign of the spring freshening so evident near shore. Our winter records do not afford any evidence that the low tempera- tures of winter are caused by an influx of northern water into our Gulf. On the contrary, the cooling is no more rapid, nor extreme, than can be accounted for by the winter climate of the neighboring land mass. And the data show clearly that the surface chilling depends closely on air temperature, a conclusion which is equally pertinent to the waters of Georges Bank in spring. But this does not prove that St. Lawrence water never affects the Gulf, for this source of supply may be expected to exert
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