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At station D in Grand Manan channel a movement into the 

 bay is indicated. 



Nine sets of drift bottles numbering in all 330 were set 

 out during the summer of 1919. Each bottle contained a 

 Canadian post card addressed to the Biological Station, and 

 offered a reward to the finder, who filled in the time and place 

 of finding the card and posted it. By December 31, 1919, 

 72 of these post cards had been returned to the station. 

 Various kinds of bottles were used. 



The first set consisted of ten 8-ounce bottles with rubber 

 corks, and having attached to them by cod line a galvanized 

 iron drag to hang at a depth of 3 fathoms. On June 18th 

 they were spaced in a line between Flag Cove, Grand Manan 

 and Petite Passage, Nova Scotia. Returns were received from 

 two of these; both found on the coast of Maine. 



The next set from which returns were received, Set D, 

 consisted of 100 2-ounce bottles with paraffined cork stoppers 

 and without drags. They were spaced evenly between Cape 

 Spencer and Parker's Cove on August 21st. Returns from 

 23 of these were received. All of the bottles found within 

 the bay were found on the coast of New Brunswick west of 

 Cape Spencer, those set out on the Nova Scotia side tending 

 to come straight across the bay. The chart (Fig. 3) shows 

 the places of finding of the third of these bottles set out 

 nearest the New Brunswick shore. Five of the eight bottles 

 represented were returned by September 4th, or within two 

 weeks. 



The prevailing and strongest winds during the latter part 

 of August, as determined by the Meteorological Station at 

 Pt. Lepreaux, were south to southeast; the maximum velocity 

 was 33 miles per hour and occurred before the bottles were 

 put out. Thus the wind could hardly have been responsible for 

 the drift of the bottles westward. Three of these bottles 

 were found so soon after they were set out that their rate 

 of travel is significant as establishing a minimum rate for the 



