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experiments in the Southern Hemisphere, their testimony must be brought 

 into the question. See (243), page 295, ante. 



The following statement of the drift of bottles is derived from Captain 

 Becher's Bottle Chart. Many of the particulars contained in it have been 

 given in our former editions, but they are here given entire in order that 

 an estimate may be formed of the strength of the current in which they 

 have drifted. It may be premised that the length of their courses is given 

 in the shortest or direct distance. It therefore underrates their progress, 

 as they have doubtless not generally pursued the shortest track to their 

 destination : — 



Ship. 



Signature. 



Where left. 



Year. 



Lat. 



N. 



Long. 

 W- 



Where found. 



Q 



> 

 u 



H r—t 



ft 



a> 



c3 



Osprey 



Wallace 



Tyne 



Kent 



Niger 



Bolivar 



Mary 



Ibbetson 



President 



Virginia 



Persian 



Albert 



Ardent 



Superior 



Enterprise 



Mary 



Orbit 



Eomulus 



Helen 



Sandwich 



J. Cropper 



Seine 



British Queen 

 Royal Union .. 



Elizabeth 



Victoria 



Alexander 



Alexander 



Newcastle 



J. Esdaile 



R. de Holland 

 Jessy 



Delia 



Normandie. 

 Graham .... 



McGiU 



Robertson.. 

 R.Hope .. 



W. L 



Merret 



Lock 



of Stockton 

 Scott 



Mallard.... 

 Robertson. 

 Duncan.... 

 Munson.... 



Godfrey... 



Boot 



Crawford 

 Butman 

 Squire ... 

 Marshall 



Hamilton 

 Grant ... 

 J. E 



Parry 



Parry 



Napier .... 



King 



Groeneld . 



Cook 



Johnstone. 



Adey 



Spalding . 

 Beach .... 



1822 

 1835 

 1834 

 1836 

 1839 

 1840 

 1832 

 1826 

 1836 

 1838 

 1834 

 1822 

 1824 

 1842 

 1833 

 1840 

 1811 

 1819 

 1834 

 1821 

 1824 

 1811 

 1838 

 1822 

 1819 

 1834 

 1818 

 1818 

 1819 

 1821 

 1850 

 1846 

 1847 

 1842 

 1844 

 1847 



49-6 

 52-2 

 46-6 

 50-3 

 48-2 

 46-9 

 44-2 

 65-5 

 48-5 

 42-2 

 47-1 

 47-3 

 570 

 53-8 

 45-1 

 47-8 

 46-8 

 57.8 

 47-3 

 60-3 

 48-3 

 50-7 

 43-9 

 48-2 

 470 

 450 

 59-1 

 620 

 38.9 

 36-9 

 460 

 50-6 

 47-3 

 500 

 57-1 

 51-1 



12-5 

 150 

 16-9 

 190 

 18-9 

 18-6 

 180 

 18-3 

 19-6 

 19-3 

 20-4 

 21-9 

 24-5 

 24 

 24-3 

 27-4 

 27 

 30-7 

 33-6 

 36-4 

 38-1 

 40-3 

 44-5 

 46-2 

 49-2 

 500 

 52-3 

 64 

 640 

 71-8 

 20-6 

 20-5 

 21-7 

 260 

 33-2 

 45-5 



Wales 



Ushant 



Devon 



Boulogne 



Qulberon 



France 



Prance 



Killala 



France 



Cork 



Ireland 



Somerset 



Lewis 



Dunnet Head 



France 



Clare Island 



Ireland 



Shetland 



Scilly 



Hebrides 



Mounts Bay 



Kerry , 



Newport , 



Scilly 



Rathlin Isle... 

 Land's End... 



Staffa , 



Donegal 



Ireland 



Lancashire ... 



Glandore 



Brest 



Brest 



Irekiud 



Norway 



Barnstaple ... 



36 

 130 



71 

 126 

 177 



94 

 310 



59 

 128 



45 

 113 

 186 

 171 

 175 

 316 

 111 

 330 

 110 

 179 

 184 

 398 

 274 



66 



75 

 311 

 215 

 437 

 416 

 356 

 495 

 345 



59 

 206 

 138 

 228 

 233 



270 



450 



600 



890 



700 



700 



700 



300 



650 



750 



600 



820 



610 



800 



980 



850 



860 



1000 



1150 



1100 



1230 



1130 



1700 



1450 



1600 



1760 



2400 



2600 



2700 



3000 



680 



480 



700 



600 



1400 



1560 



7-5 

 7-2 

 8-4 

 70 

 4-5 

 70 

 2-2 

 50 

 4-1 

 17-0 

 4-1 

 4-3 

 3-6 

 6- 

 3- 

 7- 

 2- 

 9- 

 6- 

 6-3 

 2-4 

 4-5 

 25-7 

 19-9 

 50 

 8-2 

 55 

 6-2 

 7-3 

 70 

 20 

 SO 

 3-6 

 4-6 

 61 

 6-7 



•0 

 •1 

 •7 

 ■7 

 ■1 

 ■4 



These bottles, taken from Captain Becher's list in the " Nautical Maga- 

 zine," 1853, have been selected from those which have made the ordinary 

 drift. The chart which shows their direction points most clearly to the 

 Eastward and North-Eastward drift, although the average rate is not high, 

 being for the above 6*6 miles per day, probably below their actual rate. 



