PHYSICAL OCEANOGBAPHY OF THE GULF OF MAINE 
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The next summer a series roughly at right angles to this last was set out on a 
line running northeastward from the western end of Browns Bank. Fourteen of these 
were reported from the Gulf of Maine; 6 of them scattered along the west shore of 
Nova Scotia; 7 were from widely separate localities in the Bay of Fundy, from its 
mouth to its head, after intervals of 64 days and upward; and 1 was from Penobscot 
Bay, Me. The drifts are thus much the same as those of the preceding summer, 
hugging the Nova Scotian coast to the Bay of Fundy. The time interval for the 
Penobscot Bay bottle was so long (113 days) that it, too, may have entered and 
circled the bay. 
Twelve bottles from lines set out off Country Harbor, off Beaver Island, and off 
Cape Canso, Nova Scotia, were also reported from the Gulf of Maine (all of them from 
Yarmouth and northward along the western coast of Nova Scotia) and from the 
two sides of the Bay of Fundy. Only a single bottle from these eastern lines has 
yet been reported from the western side of the gulf — one set adrift a few miles off 
Sable Island by the Ice Patrol cutter Tampa on April 18, 1924, and picked up at 
Gloucester, Mass., 118 days later. The distance in a direct line being about 450 
miles and something like 500 miles by the probable route around the northern side 
of the gulf, this bottle made an unusually rapid journey. 
Since the preceding was written, Doctor Huntsman has contributed a summary 
of five monthly series, each of 200 bottles, set out offshore from Brazil Rock (off 
Cape Sable), July to October, 1926. Twenty-six of the 35 returns from the July set 
were close by, five from the Nova Scotian shore of the Bay of Fundy, and two from 
the New Brunswick side. The 46 returns from the August series were similar, except 
that the proportion of near-by returns was smaller (16); of returns from St. Marys 
Bay and the Nova Scotian shore of the Bay of Fundy larger (29). Fifteen of 23 
returns from the lines of September 1 were again from this same sector of the Bay of 
Fundy region, three from the New Brunswick shore, and five between the point of 
release and Cape Sable. Three of the 15 returns from the series of September 27, 
however, were from the eastward (Shelburne to Port Mouton), nine near where set 
out, and only three from the Bay of Fundy. The series of October 20, again, gave 
50 per cent of returns (six) near-by, four returns to the eastward (Negro Harbor to 
vicinity of La Have River), with two, only, from the western coast of Nova Scotia 
within the Gulf of Maine. 
In sum, the evidence of a general northward drift hugging the Nova Scotian 
side of the gulf to the Bay of Fundy, and of its continuation westward as far as 
Penobscot Bay, is made cumulative by these drifts into the gulf. 
The Brazil Rock series of 1926 also show the following seasonal succession: In 
July and August the dominant movement from the offing of Cape Sable was into the 
Gulf of Maine, but by the end of September the Scotian eddy had spread westward 
far enough to involve some bottles from this line in drifts best interpreted as circling 
anticlockwise, first offshore and then in again to the coast, to the eastward. 
Further details as to the tracks followed are to be expected in Doctor Huntsman’s 
forthcoming account. 
