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other hand twelve papers thrown over in Tasman sea found their 
way on to New Zealand. 
In contrast with daily rate of the papers going northwards, one 
of these going south (No. 64) inarun of three hundred and twenty 
miles made 17:7 miles per day. 
One very interesting paper, No. 168, was thrown into the sea 
in latitude 3° 50’ south, off the west coast of South America, and 
found its way on to the east coast of Australia in latitude 15° 
south, having made the journey of 8,840 miles at the rate of 9-2 
miles per day; and No. 106, thrown over from the R.M.S. 
Miowera about four hundred miles to the north-east of Fiji found 
its way on to an island in Torres Straits at the rate of nine miles 
per day. Going now to the westward of Australia we find in 
similar low latitudes that on 2nd April, 1895, Capt. Harris of the 
R.M.S. Parramatta, coming down to Australia from Ceylon, 
threw over a current bottle. containing No. 102, in latitude 26° 
13’ south, and it was found on Farquhar Island north of Mada- 
gascar in latitude 10° 6’ south, having made the journey of 3,500 
miles at the rate of 15-4 miles per day. On 19th October, 1895, 
Capt. Anderson of the R.M.S. Austral, threw over a bottle paper 
No. 56, which made its way on to the coast of Africa in latitude 
0° 30’ south, a distance of 3,646 miles at the rate of 16:8 miles 
per day. 
More current papers are found on the coast between Melbourne 
and Adelaide than on any other part of Australia. It would 
Seem as if the bottles carried east by the current and urged by 
the south-west and southerly winds take a resultant direction at 
about east-north-east and get thrown on the coast there. Of this 
series many that should have been plotted here, are crowded out 
by the number of long distance ones and the necessarily small 
scale of the chart ; as it is, they are almost too much crowded. 
Some of these are of unusual interest, owing to the very long 
distances they passed over. Three, Nos. 157, 163, and 164, thrown 
into the sea near Cape Horn have already been referred to. 
