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the West Indian Islands. Broadly speaking, they followed 

 the Gulf Stream drift, though in the latter portion of its career 

 the Yale drifted into the Labrador Current. In December, 

 1887, a giant raft, consisting of 27,000 beams of timber, broke 

 adrift on a journey from Fiindy Bay to New York when on the 

 Nantucket Bank in 41° 16' N. Lat. and 70° 6' W. Long. This 



FiG. 26. — The Drift of the Derelict Schooxer " Fred Taylor. 

 (After Krummel.) 



timber drifted to the eastward, and in February, 1888, was 

 observed in thick masses in 65° W., in March in 60° W., and, 

 somewhat more scattered, off the Azores (30° W.) in July, and 

 in September in widely-scattered fragments north of Madeira. 

 In the summer of 1892 a small reed and wood " island " had 

 drifted over 1,000 sea miles from the South American coast. 

 A curions instance is that of the American schooner Fred 



