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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
individual stations varied widely in their duration, some being continued through sev- 
eral successive months and others only for a few days. Even if nothing else what- 
ever were known of the movements of the water in the Gulf of Maine, these arrows 
Fig. 173— Direction and velocity, in miles, of the non-tidal current, per tidal day of 24 hours and 50 minutes, at stations 
of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and of the Tidal Survey of Canada. The feathered arrow is for the one 
Albatross station (20051) 
would of themselves be strong evidence of a general tendency inward and northward 
along the western shores of Nova Scotia and out to the southeastward past Cape 
Cod and the Nantucket Shoals region for the summer and autumn months when the 
