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The inshore half of the Cape Elizabeth line of 1922 (line A, fig. 181) is more 
puzzling. These recoveries fall into four groups, so distinct and so far separated 
that the bottles must have scattered widely within a short time after they were put 
out. Four bottles from the outer half of the section went to the Bay of Fundy; 
three others were picked up along the coast of Maine between Jonesport and the 
western entrance to Penobscot Bay, the same sector to which several bottles drifted 
from the Bay of Fundy in 1919; one went southward to the Isles of Shoals, off Ports- 
mouth; and six were found in Casco Bay or along the coast a few miles to the east- 
ward of it. The recoveries from the inner end of the line were all from near-by local- 
ities, either in the Casco Bay region or along the southern shore of Cape Elizabeth. 
Fig. 181.— Assumed drifts of bottles recovered from the inshore half of Series A, set out off Cape Elizabeth, June 30, 1922 
•, place of release 
If the two halves of line A be compared (figs. 180 and 181), it is at once evident 
that the percentage of bottles that went to Nova Scotia was much greater (14 bottles) 
for the outer than for the inner half, and that all the bottles that traveled this route 
were set out more than 10 miles from the land. If the drifts from the inner end of 
line A had been the only evidence available, the natural conclusion would have been 
that their general set was eastward along the coast of Maine. The evidence of the 
other series discussed so far forbids this, however. In the first place, the Bay of 
Fundy series of 1919 drifted in the opposite direction (p. 870), as several bottles set off 
Mount Desert in 1923 did, also (p. 902). Furthermore, all the bottles from the Cape 
Cod, Cape Ann, and Cape Elizabeth lines that were recovered in the Bay of Fundy 
region were reported from so short a sector of the coast that they must have followed 
