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the irregularity of the setting of the current. The same can be said, 

 for instance, of the bottles No. 32, 33 and 26 of the »Tejo« 1899. 

 These bottles were thrown overboard to the south of Iceland; under 

 ordinary circumstances they would have been carried westwards, 

 but on account of the heavy winds from the west they were hur- 

 ried eastwards lo the west coast of Norway. How very irregular 

 the direction of otherwise constant currents can be on the whole 



Fig. 164. Chart showing fhe observed directions of currents in July 1903. 

 (Krom Deutsche Seewartes Monatskarte.) 



(comp. Boguslawski and Kriimmel: Handbuch der Ozeano- 

 graphie, vol. II, for instance p. 374 — 375) is also proved by the faet, 

 that the current of the North Sea went in an opposite direction from 

 the usual in December 1896 and January 1897^. 



I cannot but believe therefore that floating algæ, floating timber 

 to which algæ are attached, etc. can be carried to the Færoes some- 

 times when the wind is favourable, probably not only from the coasts 

 of Ireland, but also from the Hebrides and the west coasts of Scotland. 



But it is not only from these parts of the British Islands that 



1 Ful ton, T. W. The Currents of the North Sea, and their Relation to Fishe- 

 ries. (Fifteenth Annual Report of the Fisher}' Board for Scotland for the year 1896. 

 Edinburgh. 1897.) 



