INVESTIGATION OF OYSTER SPAWNING, ETC., MILFORD, CONN. 



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floats were transported by the ebb current was over 15,000 feet in a period of 6 hours. 

 With the change of current from ebb to flood the floats were carried west nearly to 

 Welchs Point, and then swung in toward shore and into the rotating current in this 

 little bay. When the floats were released on the last of ebb tide from Station 2, they 



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were carried out of the harbor as far as Station 5, and there met the first part of 

 flood tide in the Sound, which carried them to the west in a large circle, finally wash- 

 ing them ashore about 1 mile from the harbor entrance. 



From these observations it is apparent that any object floating freely in the 

 water will be carried out of the harbor by the tidal currents in the first day and never 



