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BULLETIN OP THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
and 1926, which carried bottles past Cape Ann, from Ipswich Bay into Massachu- 
setts Bay (pp. 890, 893). 
In the summers of 1922 and 1923 so many more bottles were picked up along 
Nova Scotia than in the western side of the gulf (a difference hardly accidental, 
because the coast line between Cape Elizabeth and Cape Cod is much frequented) 
that the surface water was evidently moving more offshore in the western side of the 
gulf, inshore in the eastern, than was the case in 1919. 
BOTTLES PUT OUT OFF WESTERN NOVA SCOTIA 
In 1926 the Biological Board of Canada put out four sets of bottles (each of 120) 
off Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in July, August, September, and October, and Dr. A. G. 
Huntsman has contributed a summary of the recoveries in advance of his publica- 
tion of the detailed results. 
The great majority of returns from all the sets were from the Nova Scotian side 
of the Bay of Fundy, scattered from St. Marys Bay, at the mouth, to Minas Basin 
and Chignecto Bay, at the head. Six others crossed to the New Brunswick shore of 
the bay; five were picked up at Grand Manan; two went to the coast of Maine, one 
to Cape Cod; and two went in the opposite direction, eastward, past Cape Sable to 
Cape Negro and the vicinity of Shelburne, Nova Scotia. 
As a whole, these drifts demonstrate the northerly drift along western Nova 
Scotia into the southern side of the Bay of Fundy, and up it. The New Brunswick 
recoveries show the anticlockwise movement within the bay, brought out by Mavor’s 
(1923) experiments (p. 868). The drifts to Maine and Cape Cod are in line with the 
westerly and southerly drifts of bottles from the Mount Desert and Cape Elizabeth 
lines. 
By what counterdrift the two bottles that went to the eastward escaped the 
Gulf of Maine eddy and came within the influence of the Scotian eddy is not clear. 
DRIFTS OF BOTTLES ENTERING THE GULF FROM THE EASTWARD 
The northerly drift along the Nova Scotian side of the gulf to the Bay of Fundy 
and its anticlockwise eddying continuation along the coast of Maine are further 
illustrated by the destinations reached by a considerable number of bottles that 
entered the gulf from lines set out off the outer coast of Nova Scotia by the Biolog- 
ical Board of Canada in the summers of 1922, 1923, and 1924. The following data 
have generously been contributed by Doctor Huntsman in advance of publication. 
Two bottles from a line set out southeast across the continental shelf from 
Brazil Rock on July 17, 1922, were picked up along the western coast of Nova 
Scotia; 8 in the Bay of Fundy; and 2 circled farther westward, 1 of them to Winter 
Harbor and the other continuing past Mount Desert to the neighboring Long Island. 
The localities of release were scattered from 2 to 59 miles out from Brazil Rock, 
and none of the bottles set adrift farther out were reported from the gulf. 
The bottle that went to Long Island made so rapid a drift (45 days from release 
to recovery) that no doubt it passed across the mouth of the Bay of Fundy. The 
Winter Harbor bottle, with 77 days, may have entered and circled the bay. 
