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We may first consider the outer half of the Cape Elizabeth Hne of 1922 (line A, 

 p. 871, fig. ISO) as the easiest to understand. Sixteen of these 150 bottles were 

 recovered, as follows: Outer coast of Nova Scotia (Scotts Bay), 1; vicinity of Cape 

 Sable, 1; mouth of Penobscot Bay, 2; western shore of Nova Scotia and southern 

 shore of the Bay of Fundy, 12. Thus, the net drift for the great majority of these 

 bottles was toward the east and northeast. The fact that so many of them stranded 

 along the same sector of the Nova Scotian coast where bottles from the Cape Ann 

 and Cape Cod lines have been picked up (figs. 174 and 176) makes it likely that 



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FiQ. 180.— Assumed drifts of bottles recovered from the outer half oj series A, set out off Oape Elizabeth, July 1, 1922. O, 



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they, too, veered from southeast to east in their journey across the gulf, to continue 

 northeastward along the Nova Scotian coast in the drift shown there by current 

 measurements (p. 861). The rapid drift of one bottle from the outer part of this line 

 (No. 280) to the Salvages Ledges (about 25 miles east of Cape Sable), where it was 

 picked up 67 days after release, points similarly to a rather direct track toward the 

 east at first; for it can not have followed a very circuitous route unless it drifted 

 faster than is at all likely. It is on these bases that the probable drifts are laid 

 down on Figure 180. 



