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OBSEEVATIONS ON THE CUEKENTS. 



(308.) Bottles. — The following have been selected from Captain Becher's 

 list, explaining his Bottle Chart, in the " Nautical Magazine," of Novem- 

 ber, 1862. It has been before quoted in (243), pages 296—296 :— 



Ship. 



Signature. 



Wii«Jt ieii. 





Thunder 



Osprey 



0. Danmore 



Kate 



Wellington 



Echo 



Stratford 



Osprey 



William Lockerby 



Osprey 



Osprey 



C. McCarthy 



Harlequin 



Calliope 



Two Brothers , 



Dake of ^Marlboro 



Nisus 



Mary 



Enterprise 



Investigator 



Rapid 



Sophia , 



Race-horse 



Race-horse 



Race-horse 



Owen. 



Robertson . 

 Creswell . 

 Liddell .... 

 Belcher .... 

 Locke 



Parker 



Field 



Cunningham 

 Kuper 



Thorn ... 



Rey 



Locke 



Collinson 

 McClure 

 Messmn... 

 Saxon ... 

 Home ... 

 Home ... 

 Home . . . 



183.3 

 1822 

 1828 

 1825 

 1836 

 1837 

 1836 

 1820 

 1838 

 1820 

 1822 

 1824 

 1851 

 1843 

 1826 

 1820 

 1842 

 1836 

 1850 

 1850 

 1852 

 1848 

 1836 

 1835 

 1835 



Latitude 



28-4 

 133 

 £7-4 

 24-0 

 17-9 

 17-3 

 14-5 



41 

 141 



62 



62 

 220 

 24-7 

 19 2 

 Verde 

 Verde 



Long. 

 W- 



Where found. 



25-5 



39-2 



28-0 



190 



290 



36-6 



34-4 



24-3 



25-2 



24-7 



15-6 



53-5 



30-4 



30-8 



Islands 



Islands 



4 



4 



8 



1 



6 



3 







8 



5 



03 



p 



> 



Bahamas 



Bahamas 



Cuba 



Mosquitia 



Abaco 



Antigua 



Jamaica 



Barbadoes .... 

 Grenadines .... 



I\Iartinique 



Trinidad 



San Salvador . 

 Turks Island . 



Cai:os 



Crooked Island 



Hayti 



Martinique .... 



Barbuda 



Honduras 



Ambergris Kay 

 Martinique .... 



Grenada 



St. Vincent .... 



Tobago 



Maracaibo .... 



506 

 216 

 437 

 519 

 265 

 196 

 278 

 139 

 169 

 822 

 192 

 226 

 300 

 875 

 382 

 283 

 277 

 278 

 367 

 186 

 155 

 151 

 35 

 50 

 17 



2750 

 2610 

 2530 

 3300 

 4000 

 1410 

 2460 

 2220 

 2110 

 2300 

 2920 

 1200 

 2300 

 2250 

 2300 

 2610 

 2100 

 1700 

 3800 

 3610 

 2430 

 1320 



610 

 1000 



240 



5-4 



12-1 



58 



6-3 



151 



71 



8-9 



160 



12-4 



71 



15-2 



5-7 



76 



00 



7-1 



9-2 



7-6 



60 



10-3 



200 



15-6 



8-7 



17-4 



200 



140 



The mean rate of traTelling of all these BottleB is 10-6 miles per day. But this 

 average requires several qualifications which vfi]} make it considerably higher. 

 The distances are measured direct, but it is most probable that these messengers 

 pursued a more or less devious course. Again, it vpill be seen that the Bottles 

 thrown out on the Northern part of this Trade Wind drift have travelled much 

 slower to their destination than those which started from near the Equator. 



(309.) Besides the above, we add the following examples of Bottle drifts : — 



Central Drift to the Virgin Isles. — A Bottle from the Emerald, Captain Nockells, 

 bound to Jamaica, December 17th, 1831, in lat. 36° 40', long., by chron., 12° 32'. 

 -Found on the North side of Anegada, January 8tb, 1833. The winds for the last 

 three days, previous to the 17th of December, were from North and N.W. to S.W. 

 For eight days preceding these it blew a continued and heavy gale from S.W. and 

 "W.N.W. ; the barque lying-to the whole time, and drifting from lat. 41° 28 , 227 

 miles to the Northward. 



Equatorial Current to Tohagc. — A Bottle from the schooner Julia, William 

 Davidson, master, in lat. 6" N., and long. 40° W., November 6th, 1821. Found 

 March 7th, 1822, near the shore of Little Bocky Bay, Tobago. 



Crnlrul Drift and Equatorial Cw rents. — A Bottle from the ship Gambia, in the 

 River Gambia, lat. 13^" N., in the latter part of 1831, was picked up on the 

 Southern side ol Virgin Gorda, lat. 18° 30'. 



Central Drift and Equatorial Currents. — A Bottle from the Ttco Brothers, of 

 Baltimore, in lat. 17' N., long. 26" W. (off St. Antonio), November 21st. 1826, 



