PHYSICAL OCEANOGEAPHY OF THE GULF OF MAINE 



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Cod lines have stranded would of itself be strong evidence that the routes of all 

 had converged into one general and rather definite track some distance before they 

 reached the land. In this respect the correspondence between the Mount Desert 

 line of 1923 and the outer half of the Cape Elizabeth line of 1922 (series A, fig. 180) 



Portland 



Fig. 183.— Assumed drifts of representative bottles recovered to the eastward from Series D, set out off Moimt Desert 



Island, August 6, 1923. ®, places of release 



is as close as could have been expected had all these bottles been launched on the 

 same line and on the same day. In fact, this correspondence extends even to the 

 odd bottles that diverged from the majority grouping, one or two having reached 



