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current in which they were carried. Bottle 67, which was set 

 out near Cape Spencer on August 21st, was found three days 

 later in Musquash Harbor, a distance of about 15 nautical 

 miles, giving a rate of 5 nautical miles per day. Bottle 75, 

 which was set out at about the same time and farther from 

 shore, was found four days and six hours later, at a distance 

 of about 20 nautical miles, giving a rate of a little less than 

 5 nautical miles per day. Bottle 96, set out also on the same 

 day about a third of the way across from Cape Spencer to 

 Parker's Cove, was found six days later at Little Lepreaux, 

 near Point Lepreaux, a distance of about 30 nautical miles, 

 giving again a rate of about 5 nautical miles per day. Bottle 

 72, put out on the same day near bottle 75, was found eleven 

 days later in Letite Passage, a distance of about 46 nautical 

 miles, giving a rate of about 4 nautical miles per day. The 

 finding of these bottles therefore indicates the presence of a 

 current running along the New Brunswick shore from east to 

 west at a rate of at least 5 nautical miles per day. 



Another set, H, of 50 bottles, similar to those of the set 

 just considered, was set out on September 13th by Dr. Philip 

 Cox from the passenger steamer plying between St. John and 

 Digby. Twelve post cards from these bottles were received 

 by December 31, 1919, nine from the New Brunswick coast 

 west of St. John, one a few miles to the east, and two from 

 the Nova Scotia coast. The drift of these bottles has then 

 in the main repeated that of the previous set put out on a line 

 slightly to the east of them. 



Still another set, G, consisting of 100 bottles of the same 

 kind, 2-ounce bottles without drags, was set out to the west 

 of these on a line from Point Lepreaux, New Brunswick, to 

 Petite Passage, Nova Scotia, on August 29th. By the end 

 of the year 27 post cards had been received from these. The 

 drift of the bottles of this set confirms also the presence of 

 a current across the bay, and westward along the New Bruns- 

 wick shore. 



