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The inshore half of the Cape Elizabeth line of 1922 (line A, fig. 181) is more 

 puzzling. These recoveries fall into four groups, so distinct and so far separated 

 that the bottles must have scattered widely within a short time after they were put 

 out. Four bottles from the outer half of the section went to the Bay of Fundy; 

 three others were picked up along the coast of Maine between Jonesport and the 

 western entrance to Penobscot Bay, the same sector to which several bottles drifted 

 from the Bay of Fundy in 1919; one went southward to the Isles of Shoals, off Ports- 

 mouth; and six wei'e found in Casco Bay or along the coast a few miles to the east- 

 ward of it. The recoveries from the inner end of the line were all from near-by local- 

 ities, either in the Casco Bay region or along the southern shore of Cape Elizabeth. 



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Fig. 181.— Assumed drifts of bottles recovered from the inshore half of Series A, set out off Cape Elizabeth, June 30, 1922' 



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If the two halves of line A be compared (figs. 180 and 181), it is at once evident 

 that the percentage of bottles that went to Nova Scotia was much greater (14 bottles) 

 for the outer than for the inner half, and that all the bottles that traveled this route 

 were set out more than 10 miles from the land. If the drifts from the inner end of 

 line A had been the only evidence available, the natural conclusion would have been 

 that their general set was eastward along the coast of Maine. The evidence of the 

 other series discussed so far forbids this, however. In the first place, the Bay of 

 Fundy series of 1919 drifted in the opposite dhection (p. 870), as several bottles set off 

 Mount Desert in 1923 did, also (p. 902). Furthermore, all the bottles from the Cape 

 Cod, Cape Ann, and Cape Elizabeth lines that were recovered in the Bay of Fundy 

 region were reported from so short a sector of the coast that they must have followed 



