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fathoms; which being placed in order will serve to explain the arrangement of the following table.

		Distance	Temperature.		Depth
No.	Date.	off Shore.	Air.	Sea.	of Water.	Remarks.
		Miles.			Fms.
1	7	120	71°	70°	400	No soundings.
2	8	90	65	63	130	No soundings.
3	—	45	65	56	127	Temp, at that depth, 45°.
4	—	10	59	54	65
5	9	10	59	54	47
6	10	60	64	61	200	Temp, at that depth, 43°.5.
7	—	20	61	55	130
8	11	52	67	64	203
9	—	32	60	54	142
10	12	51	69	66.5	313
11	—	36	67	67	202
12	—	27	58	54.5	72
13	13	7	63	55	58
14	—	4	59	51.5	48
15	14	27	62	57.5	115
16	15	6	55	51	76	W.N.W. from Cape.
17	16	11	66	62	190	W.S.W. from Cape.
18	17	4	65	60	37	In False Bay, S. E. from Cape.

By a careful examination of the above experiments it will be manifest that the distance to which the cold water extends from the coast depends materially upon the depth of the soundings. It barely reaches forty miles from the shore, where the sea is more than three hundred fathoms deep, but spreads over double that distance in the shallower parts. At forty-five miles from the land, and at a depth of one hundred and twenty fathoms, the temperature was found to be 45°, that of the surface