PHYSICAL OCEAKOGRAPHY OF THE GULF OP MAINE 



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The distance from the Bay of Fundy to Cape Cod being about 220 miles, these 

 bottles, as Mavor points out, must have drifted at an average rate of at least 4 miles 

 per day. Actually, the rate was no doubt somewhat more rapid than this, because 

 the track probably followed is approximately 260 miles, at the smallest reckoning. 



The regional distribution of the recoveries in the Massachusetts Bay region is 

 also interesting, none being from the shore line between Cape Ann and Plymouth, 

 but seven scattered around the shores of Cape Cod Bay from Plymouth to the 

 tip of the cape.°^ The hook of Cape Cod seems, therefore, to have acted as a sort 

 of catch-basin for flotsam at the time these bottles were adrift, evidence that the set 

 of surface water was then from north to south across the mouth of Massachusetts 

 Bay, as it was in March, 1920 (current measurements at station 20051; p. 863), not 

 around the shore line of the bay, as current measurements show it at times (p. 863). 



Two bottles, evidently having crossed the mouth of the bay somewhat farther out, 

 stranded on the outer shore of Cape Cod (near Pamet River Coast Guard Station and 

 near South Wellfleet wireless towers), and one went to Monomoy Island at the southern 

 angle of Cape Cod. 



BOTTLES SET OUT IN THE GULF OF MAINE 



The drifts of the bottles set out in the Bay of Fundy by the Biological Board 

 of Canada in 1919 were so significant and agreed so well with the dominant set 

 calculated from current measurements that the United States Bureau of Fisheries has 

 since released 1,606 drift bottles in the Gulf of Maine and its tributary waters along 

 the following lines, the returns from which are tabulated below: 



DRIFT-BOTTLE RECORD, INCLUDING RECOVERIES UP TO SEPTEMBER 1, 1926 



Series A: Bottles Nos. 1 to 300; two every half mile on a line running 125°, true, 

 from Cape Elizabeth to the vicinity of Cashes Ledge, June 30 to July 1, 1922. 



No. 



Set out 



Latitude Longitude 



Where found 



Date, 

 1922 



Inter- 

 val 



99 

 105 

 124 



30 00 



29 48 



29 30 



29 30 

 29 



28 64 



27 06 



25 57 



23 48 



23 12 



22 64 



22 18 



22 18 



21 42 



21 06 



20 30 



20 30 



20 12 



00 19 



18 42 



17 48 



15 06 ! 



70 

 70 

 70 

 70 

 12 i 70 

 70 



04 42 



04 06 



03 30 



03 30 



02 54 



02 18 



68 42 



56 18 



52 OS 



50 40 



50 18 



49 06 



49 06 



47 64 



46 42 



45 30 



45 30 



44 54 



42 30 



41 54 



40 02 



Small Point Harbor, east of Littlewood Island, Me 



Between Richmond Island and Cape Elizabeth, Me _ 



Near Bald Head, Small Point, Me __ 



1 mile east of Cape Elizabeth Lighthouse 



Northwest side of Mouhegan Island 



Richmond Island Bay, Ale 



Woodwards Cove, Grand Manan Island 



Metinic Shoal (northwest of it) 



Loon Point, Jonesport, Me 



Chebeague Island. Me 



Prouts Neck Beach. .Scarboro, Me 



Boothbay Harbor, Me __ 



5 miles east of Prouts Neclt, Me., opposite Richmond Island 



Thompsons Point, Cundys Harlior, Me _ _-- 



Birch Point, Winnegance Bay, Me 



South Beach, Matinicus Island, Me 



Eastern Wolves Island, Bav of Fundy 



Bald Head, Casco Bay, Me _-. 



^i mile northeast from outer John's Island, near Swans Island, Me. 



Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia... 



1 mile west of Hartsville Breakwater, south shore of Bay of Fundy. 

 South side of Cedar Island, Isles of Shoals, N. H 



July 26 

 July 5 

 July 28 

 July 4 

 Aug, 



July 13 

 Oct. 12 

 Sept. 13 

 Sept. 18 

 July 25 

 ...do 

 Aug. 1 

 Sept. 10 

 .-do.... 

 Aug. 20 

 Oct. 12 

 .-do.... 

 July 25 

 Sept. 1 

 Sept. 18 

 Oct. 6 

 Oct. 8 



26 

 5 

 28 

 4 

 47 

 13 



104 

 75 

 80 

 25 

 25 

 32 

 72 

 72 

 51 



103 



103 

 25 

 63 

 80 

 98 



100 



fls White Horse Beach, Plymouth; Sagamore Highlands; Sagamore Beach; Scorton Beach; North Truro; and three between 

 Wood End and Peaked Hill Bar Coast Guard .Station. 



