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_ lowing notes :— 
“In December, 1856 (I think), the barque Jone gone 
210 E. B. Hunt on the Florida Gulf Stream. 
Captain Wilson who has for several years been running on the — 
vessel serving Fort Jefferson on Tortugas as a mail boat toand — 
m Key West, says that for some three months prior to Feb, 
11, 1857, there was a strong and decided westerly current on the — 
north margin of the gulf, on the reef between Key West and 
Tortugas. It had then for some two months been constantly to 
the west. Running out from Tortugas on an ESE. orS2 
course, and tacking to the north or east of north when the pomt 
was reached, which in an ordinary gulf stream would bring him 
out somewhere from Sand Key light to six or seven miles west 
of it, which tack if there were no currents would bring him out 
There is no appearance of any current on or within the reef | 
either way except the set of the tides. When the westerly cur 
rent is running, he finds it better to beat up within the reef _ : | 
(1857-8), or for so long a time, probably not over @ month i 
any es — He thinks the westerly current . id 
appears during the prevalence of the regular summer ade. | 
_I was informed be General Totten pe, Bainbridge 4 
him, that in a voyage made by him some fifty years since, Wi" 
he supposed himself in the Gulf Stream, west of Cape spat 
he found by known landmarks that he had drifted a considem® 
distance to the westward instead of to the eastward. she fh 
Iam indebted to Mr. Charles Tift, of Key West, for the® 
headed Shot Key’s light. While looking out for the igh . 
“The ship Rockland from New Orleans to Bosto: psi = 
Pan of Matanzas at four o'clock (say March 5th, 1 58), wise 
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pre ee 
ES.E., ship going per compass E.N.E,, intending to sight? 
headed Shot K: Fight. At twelve o'clock saw what tT” 
posed to be the light and 5 
on Double-headed Shot Keys, 
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