PHYSICAL OCEANOGKAPHY OF THE GULF OF MAINE 



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A definite indraft into the southern side of the Bay of Fundy along its Nova 

 Scotian shore is sufficiently demonstrated. However, this involves only the outer- 

 most edge of the Gulf of Maine eddy, the inner part of which continues northward 

 across the mouth of the bay, a route followed by some of the bottles. 



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Portland 



Fig. 207. — Schematic representation of the dominant nontidal circulation of the gulf, July to August 



Within the Bay of Fundy the water eddies inward along the Nova Scotian side, 

 outward along the New Brunswick side and to the southward of Grand Manan 

 Island. However, there is some evidence that the latter forms the vortex of a 

 second eddy of the opposite sort (clockwise) carrying water inward to the Bay of 



