PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY OF THE GULF OF MAINE 
871 
The distance from the Bay of Fundy to Cape Cod being about 220 miles, these 
bottles, as Mavor points out, must have drifted at an average rate of at least 4 miles 
per day. Actually, the rate was no doubt somewhat more rapid than this, because 
the track probably followed is approximately 260 miles, at the smallest reckoning. 
The regional distribution of the recoveries in the Massachusetts Bay region is 
also interesting, none being from the shore line between Cape Ann and Plymouth, 
but seven scattered around the shores of Cape Cod Bay from Plymouth to the 
tip of the cape. 65 The hook of Cape Cod seems, therefore, to have acted as a sort 
of catch-basin for flotsam at the time these bottles were adrift, evidence that the set 
of surface water was then from north to south across the mouth of Massachusetts 
Bay, as it was in March, 1920 (current measurements at station 20051; p. 863), not 
around the shore line of the bay, as current measurements show it at times (p. 863). 
Two bottles, evidently having crossed the mouth of the bay somewhat farther out, 
stranded on the outer shore of Cape Cod (near Pamet River Coast Guard Station and 
near South Wellfleet wireless towers), and one went to Monomoy Island at the southern 
angle of Cape Cod. 
BOTTLES SET OUT IN THE GULF OF MAINE 
The drifts of the bottles set out in the Bay of Fundy by the Biological Board 
of Canada in 1919 were so significant and agreed so well with the dominant set 
calculated from current measurements that the United States Bureau of Fisheries has 
since released 1,606 drift bottles in the Gulf of Maine and its tributary waters along 
the following lines, the returns from which are tabulated below: 
DRIFT-BOTTLE RECORD, INCLUDING RECOVERIES UP TO SEPTEMBER 1, 1926 
Series A: Bottles Nos. 1 to 300; two every half mile on a line running 125°, true, 
from Cape Elizabeth to the vicinity of Cashes Ledge, June 30 to July 1, 1922. 
No. 
Set out 
Where found 
Date, 
Inter- 
Latitude 
Longitude 
1922 
val 
23 
O / // 
43 30 0G 
70 04 42 
Small Point Harbor, east of Littlewood Island, Mo 
July 26 
Days 
26 
26 
43 29 48 
70 04 06 
Between Richmond Island and Cape Elizabeth, Me 
July 5 
5 
27 
43 29 30 
70 03 30 
Near Bald Head, Small Point, Me 
July 28 
28 
28 
43 29 30 
70 03 30 
l mile east of Cape Elizabeth Lighthouse ... - 
July 4 
4 
30 
43 29 12 
70 02 54 
Northwest side of Monhegan Island 
Aug. 16 
47 
32 
43 28 54 
70 02 18 
Richmond Island Bay, Me .. .. 
July 13 
13 
43 
43 27 06 
69 58 42 
Woodwards Cove, Grand Manan Island - - 
Oct. 12 
104 
52 
43 25 57 
69 56 18 
Metinic Shoal (northwest of it) __ __ 
Sept. 13 
75 
65 
43 23 48 
69 52 06 
Loon Point, Jonesport., Me ... 
Sept. 18 
80 
70 
43 23 12 
69 50 40 
Chebeague Island, Me.. _ 
July 25 
do 
25 
72 
43 22 54 
69 50 18 
Promts Neck Beach. Scarboro, Me 
25 
75 
43 22 18 
69 49 06 
Boothbay Harbor, Me 
Aug. 1 
32 
76 
43 22 18 
69 49 06 
5 miles east of Prouts Neck, Me., opposite Richmond Island.. 
Sept. 10 
72 
79 
43 21 42 
69 47 54 
Thompsons Point, Cundvs Harbor, Me 
_ _do 
72 
83 
43 21 06 
69 46 42 
Birch Point, Winnegance Bay, Me 
Aug. 20 
51 
87 
43 20 30 
69 45 30 
South Beach, Matinicus Island, Me ... 
Oct. 12 
103 
88 
43 20 30 
69 45 30 
103 
90 
43 20 12 
69 44 54 
Bald Head, Casco Bay, Me.. 
% mile northeast from’ outer John’s Island, near Swans Island, Me... 
July 25 
25 
98 
43 00 19 
69 42 30 
Sept. 1 
63 
99 
43 18 42 
69 41 54 
Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia . 
Sept. 18 
80 
105 
43 17 48 
69 40 02 
1 mile west of Hartsville Breakwater, south shore of Bay of Fundy.. 
Oct. 6 
98 
124 
43 15 06 
69 34 42 
South side of Cedar Island, Isles of Shoals, N. H 
Oct. 8 
100 
14 White Horse Beach, Plymouth; Sagamore Highlands; Sagamore Beach; Scorton Beach; North Truro; and three between 
Wood End and Peaked Hill Bar Coast Guard Station. 
