904. 4. H. C. RUSSELL. 
Bight in unsettled country, and Nos. 157 and 164 were found on 
the coast of Victoria west of Cape Otway, where probably they 
would not rest many days before they were found. Whereas No. 
163 went ashore where there are but few residents, and presumably 
a bottle cast up by the sea there might rest a long time before 
it was found, but its daily rate seems to indicate that it did not 
rest very long. 
In the paper TI submitted in 1894 reference was made to twelve 
papers found on the east coast, two of these went to the south, 
and seven went north against the usual current, and three came 
in from the east. In the present list containing more than three 
' times as many papers as the first one, we have fifteen papers 
found on the east coast, again three of them went to the south. 
Eight went to the north, and four came in from the east. In 
_view of the well known southerly current on this coast, it is 
remarkable that so few of the papers found seem to go with it, 
and that the majority of papers found go against the current Tt 
is noteworthy that these made very slow progress, seldom exceed- 
ing one or two miles per day. One of them thrown over near 
Cape Howe, made a run of eight hundred and eighty miles to 
Moreton Bay, at an average daily rate of 1:3 miles. There is, 
however, no actual proof that these bottles follow the coast in 
going north, and in this paper there is ample proof that some 
papers set afloat near our southern coast go to the eastward, and 
are picked up on New Zealand ; there are also proofs that some 
papers once they get well off the coast go northward, and find a 
resting place on Lord Howe Island or other places. We have 
proof therefore, that papers starting near this coast may drift to 
the east, and also to the north; possibly some may go north until 
they get into the great easterly current which passes New Cale- 
donia, and in this way get carried on to the Australian coast, and 
such a course need not have involved a greater rate of progress 
than three miles per day. In support of this view it may be 
mentioned that Nos. 160, 162, and 166, thrown over-in the sup- 
posed possible track found their way on to the coast. On the 
