|5<l Ciirrenfs of the Ocean. 



ina; of young fruit- and other trees for exportation, He does 

 this by squeezing out part of the nioisiure from the ninss, 

 and laying courses of it about three inclu's thick, interposed 

 with other courses of the trees, (previously shortened in 

 their branches and root?,) stratum super stratum, until the 

 box is filled, when the wliole must be fodden down, and 

 the lid properly secured* Tlie trees will need no care even 

 during a voyage of ten or twelve months ; the moss being 

 wonderl'uUy retentive of nioi?tnre, and seeming to possess an 

 anti-scptif properly which lolailv j^revcnts ftrmentaiion or 

 puirefacti(Mi from taking phice; aird, in fact, vegeiaiinn ac- 

 tually proceeds during the time the trees remaiti so inclosed ; 

 shoots being formed both from their branches and roots, 

 which, however, are blanched and lender, for want of light 

 and air; and, in consequence, the trees, on beina plan'ed, 

 require to be gradually inured to the open air. This moss 

 js verv common in most parts of Europe and Ameiica, 

 which renders this application of it more facile, and the dis- 

 covery 4nore important. 



The following is an illustration of a well know fact, that 

 the general tendency of currents in the ocean is from the 

 JIast towards the West : — 



(COPi'.) 



" Neptune, St. John's Roads, Antigua, 

 June 29, Ifv*);). 



"Sir, — As the inclosed letters*, picked up in a bottle, 

 ■on the windward part of the is'and of Martinique, on the 

 T8ih of Ainil last, tend to elucidate the slate of tlie current 

 in the Atlantic Ocean, 1 inclose them to you, with a request 

 that you will be phased to make the circumstance known to 

 the lords commissioners of the admiralty. 



" 'J'he bottle cippeais to have been thrown overboard b\^ 

 the Piincess Elizabeth packet, going to the lirazils, on the 

 ■6th of September 1R08, in lat." 14.45, and long. 25, and it 

 must have been carried about '2020 ntile-: in -2:4 days, wlrich 

 gives nine miles per day on a wc-t course. — I am, &c. 



(Siiintd) Alex. Cochrane." 



«« W. W. Pole." 



Without l)eiiig profoundly sl<iiled in subjects of this na- 

 ture, we should appreiicnd that the rotatory motion of the 

 earth, from west to east, will, where local circumstances do 

 jiot operate, TiecessariK produce a bearing of the fluid eie- 

 n»ent in a contrarv direction, and occa'-ion the general ten- 

 dency of currents to be fiotn east to west. To this it may 



* Scvera! leticrs were found in the bottle addressed to individuals. 



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