412 Alf Trolle. 



As No. 127 was found more than a year later than No. 115, which 

 was carried a much furtlier distance, we may conclude that it has 

 lain some time unobserved on or near the beach. 



The bottles 129, 130 and 135 were thrown out on 3 successive 

 days at places with some scattered drift-ice east of the main body 

 of the south-going, ice-carrying Polar CiuTent. Two of the bottles 

 were recovered on the north coast of Norway and one on Iceland and 

 the drift must therefore be considered to have been, first southward 

 with the eastern part of the Polar Current and then with the East- 

 Icelandic Polar Current along the same route as those mentioned 

 earlier. 



The bottle 141 was thrown overboard in the eastern edge of the 

 dense drift-ice belt, which accompanied the main body of the Polar 

 Current. It was recovered ca. 3 years later on one of the Shetland 

 Islands. 



No. 177 was thrown out in the western edge of the dense drift-ice 

 belt and was recovered ca. 234 years later on one of the Hebrides. 



Whilst these two bottles, which were both thrown out in the 

 main body of the south-going Polar Current ofT the Greenland coast, 

 have thus both ended their drift to the east of Iceland, one bottle 

 No. 188, which was also thrown out in the western edge of the dense 

 drift-ice, though perhaps a little more to the west than No. 177, has 

 been carried with the Polar Current round Cape Farewell and there- 

 after northwards along the west coast of Greenland to Godthaab, 

 where it was found floating among the drift-ice about 1 year after it 

 had been thrown out by the Danmark. 



If we assume, that the bottles 141 and 177 have drifted east round 

 Iceland and thereafter southwards under the influence of northerly 

 winds, it may be considered, that it is only the westernmost part of 

 the south-going Polar Current, which continues round Cape Farewell, 

 whilst the main body forms the East-Icelandic Polar Current and 

 thus a closed circuit in the Norwegian Sea itself. 



But the possibility is not excluded, that the bottles 141 and 177 

 have drifted first along the same route as No. 188 and thereafter further 

 in the large circuit in the Atlantic, in the end coming up from the 

 south with the Gulf Stream to the west of Ireland and Scotland. Two 

 facts point in this direction, namely, that these two bottles were the 

 only ones which were recovered south of the Færoes and also the long 

 time (234 to 3 years) both have been drifting. As the bottles might 

 possibly have lain some time on the beach before they were found, 

 the finders of the bottles were asked regarding this possibility and 

 the following answers were received. 



No. 141. "Papa Stour. Shetland. 27th Dec. 1911. Sir. In 

 reply to your letter just to hand regarding the paper I found in 1909, 

 I beg to state that I found it ashore, and as the beach on which it 



