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intervals of 65 days (between release and recovery) to Pubnico, 60 days to Yarmouth, 

 64 days to Port Maitland, and 85 days to Digby Gut suggest a somewhat more 

 direct route to Nova Scotia than was followed by the Cape Cod series of the year 

 previous, because it is not likely that they traveled more than 3 or 4 miles per day 



Fig. 176. — Assumed drifts of bottles recovered from lines F (solid curves) and G (dotted curves), set out ofl Cape Ann and 



Cape Cod, August 9 and 16, 1923. •, place of release 



until they approached Nova Scotia, where their daily rate may have increased to 5 

 to 6 miles (p. 867; fig. 173). The probable tracks laid down on the chart (fig. 176) 

 are based on an assumed rate of about 3 miles per d^j, corresponding to the bottles 

 that drifted from the Cape Cod line (Ime B) to the Bay of Fundy in 1922 (p. 887). 



