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BULLETIN OB THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
We may first consider the outer half of the Cape Elizabeth line of 1922 (line A, 
p. 871, fig. 180) as the easiest to understand. Sixteen of these 150 bottles were 
recovered, as follows: Outer coast of Nova Scotia (Scotts Bay), 1; vicinity of Cape 
Sable, 1; mouth of Penobscot Bay, 2; western shore of Nova Scotia and southern 
shore of the Bay of Fundy, 12. Thus, the net drift for the great majority of these 
bottles was toward the east and northeast. The fact that so many of them stranded 
along the same sector of the Nova Scotian coast where bottles from the Cape Ann 
and Cape Cod lines have been picked up (figs. 174 and 176) makes it likely that 
Fig. 180. — Assumed drifts of bottles recovered from the outer half of series A, set out oft Cape Elizabeth, July 1, 1922. ©, 
place of release 
they, too, veered from southeast to east in their journey across the gulf, to continue 
northeastward along the Nova Scotian coast in the drift shown there by current 
measurements (p. 861). The rapid drift of one bottle from the outer part of this line 
(No. 280) to the Salvages Ledges (about 25 miles east of Cape Sable), where it was 
picked up 67 days after release, points similarly to a rather direct track toward the 
east at first; for it can not have followed a very circuitous route unless it drifted 
faster than is at all likely. It is on these bases that the probable drifts are laid 
down on Figure 180. 
