PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY OP THE GULF OF MAINE 
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Cod lines have stranded would of itself be strong evidence that the routes of all 
had converged into one general and rather definite track some distance before they 
reached the land. In this respect the correspondence between the Mount Desert 
line of 1923 and the outer half of the Cape Elizabeth line of 1922 (series A, fig. 180) 
Fia. 183. — Assumed drifts of representative bottles recovered to the eastward from Series D, set out oil Mount Desert 
Island, August 6, 1923. O, places of release 
is as close as could have been expected had all these bottles been launched on the 
same line and on the same day. In fact, this correspondence extends even to the 
odd bottles that diverged from the majority grouping, one or two having reached 
