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from S.W. for five days, a fresh gale, and then S.W. Another Bottle from the 

 Maitland, transport, in lat- 49° 5', long. 18° 19', Marcii 10th, 1838. Both found, 

 on the 25th of February, 1839, on the shore of Arcachon, in the Bay, lat. about 

 44° 40' N. 



A metal cylinder, cast from H.M.S. Chanticleer, Captain H. T. Austin, May Std^ 



1831, in lat. 44° 38^', long. 11° 4' W., was found near Vivero, on the North coast 

 of Spain, 12th of September following, at about 150 miles from the spot where it 

 was dropped into the sea. 



A Bottle from the bark Mary, of London, Abyah Locke, master, April 12th, 



1832, in lat. 48° 30', long. 16° 56', was found on the coast of Jart, lat. 36° 25', 

 March 4th, 1833. 



Another Bottle from the same vessel, April 1st, 1832, in lat. 46° 15', long. 17° 58', 

 was foimd near Cape Ferret, 44° 38', February 21st, 1833. 



A Bottle thrown over from the Wellington, August 23rd, 1837, in lat. 45° 10' N., 

 long. 12° 58' W., was thrown on the South coast of the Isle of Re, probably about 

 the end of February, 1838; found March 2nd, 1838. 



Tide Water on Soundings. — A Bottle from the bark Wallace, of AUoa, bound to 

 Van Dieman's Land, April 12th, 1835, in lat. 52° 13', long. 15°, was picked up at 

 5 miles from Ushant, August 21st, 1835. 



A Bottle from the Kent, troop ship, in lat. 50° 20', long. 19° 0' W., August 19th, 

 1836, was picked up near Cape Blancnez, a few miles from Boulogne, December 

 20th, in the same year. 



Bay of Biscay, South Side. — A Bottle from the schooner Morning Star, of Liver- 

 pool, Captain Andrew Livingston, October 7th, 1821, lat. 42° 45' 39" N., long. 

 13° 3' 21" W., was found about 22 miles to the Northward of Bayonne, lat. 

 43° 58' N., long. 1° 20' W., and made known in the Moniteur of January 24th, 

 1822. 



One of the most singular routes of the kind that we have met with was a Bottle 

 covered with barnacles, picked up at Mizen Head, on the S.W. coast of Ireland, 

 October 19th, 1837. Its enclosed note stated that it was dropped off Cape Horn, 

 from the Salem, E. Crukers, master, of the United States, in lat. 53° 3' S., long. 

 67° 5' W., on June 24th, 1830. 



(261.) Velocity. — The daily rate of the inset into the Bay of Biscay, as 

 estimated from the drift of the Bottles quoted in Captain Becher's chart, 

 ' (243), is as follows : — (The numbers refer to Bottle Chart in the Nautical 

 Magazine for November, 1852) — No. 2 (drifted 250 miles) 4-8 miles per day ; 

 No. 3 (230 m.) 3-3 m. ; No. 3a (270 m.), 4-5 m. ; No. 5 (420 m.), 1-8 m.; 

 No. 11 (150 m.), 0-7 m. ; No. 11a (100 m.), 3 m. ; No. 16 (200 m.), 1-2 m. ; 

 No. 28 (700 m.), 4-5 m. ; No. 28a (700 m.), 2-2 m. ; No. 33 (650 m.), 4-1 m. ; 

 No. 37a (680 m.), 2 m. ; No. 40 (980 m.), 3-1 m. It will be seen that the 

 longest courses have the quickest rates, so we may suppose that when the 

 Bottles become entangled in the shore tides and devious drifts, they do 

 not travel so fast in direct distance. The mean rate of all these Bottles 

 is 3-26 miles per day. The rate of those which travel up the English 

 Channel is very much greater, averaging 11 to 14 miles per day. 



The foregoing are the principal arguments and facts from which the 

 existence of the 'thwart Channel Current is inferred. That there is some 

 cause for the drifting of the various vessels, &c., in a Northward and West- 

 ward direction, there can be no doubt ; nor can there, be any doubt that 



