CURRENTS OF THE ATLANTIC 53 



The Passage op Bottle-drift from the West Indies and the East Coasts 

 of North America to the Shores of Europe (continued) 



TABLE II 



The results of the researches of the Prince of Monaco 



(The specially devised floats employed were deeply immersed and were thus less 

 likely to be directly influenced by the wind than the ordinary bottle as usually em- 

 ployed. Only the latter part of the traverse from the West Indian region to the 

 shores of Europe is here illustrated, namely, the portion east and north of a line 

 drawn from the Azores to the Banks of Newfoundland. Quite two-thirds of the 

 floats were dropped into the southern half of the area traversed by the Gulf Stream, 

 using that term in a general sense; and this explains the large percentage of floats 

 that were deflected south to the Canaries and ultimately reached the West Indies 

 in the North Equatorial Current.) 





Locality 



where thrown Overboard 









A 





C 









(1885) 



(1887) 



(1886) 









North-west of 











Place of Recovery 



the Azores. 

 (Along a line 

 stretching 

 from 117 to 



Between the 

 Banks of New- 

 foundland and 



North-east of 

 the Azores. 

 (Between 

 42° 30' and 



Total 



Per- 

 centage 





270 miles 



the Azores. 











N.N.W. of 

 Corvo, lat. 

 41°-44° N., 

 and long. 



(Along a line 

 joining these 

 two localities. 1 ) 



50° N. lat. 

 and along the 

 meridian 

 17° 30' W.) 









32°-33° W.) 











Iceland .... 





3 





3 



1-3 



Norway .... 





22 





22 



10 



Denmark .... 





1 





1 



0-5 



Scotland, Hebrides, 













Orkneys, Shetlands 





9 





9 



4 



Ireland .... 





18 





18 



8 



England . ■ . 





2 





2 



1 



France .... 





12 



24 



36 



16 



Spain and Portugal . 



1 



12 



18 



31 



14 



Azores .... 



11 



26 





37 



16-5 



Tunis 







1 



1 



0-5 



Morocco .... 





1 



6 



7 



3 



Madeira .... 



1 



5 





6 



2-7 



Canaries .... 



1 



14 



6 



21 



9-5 



West Indies . 



4 



13 



6 



23 



10-5 



Yucatan .... 





1 





1 



0-5 



Bermuda .... 





3 



1 



4 



2 





18 



142 



62 



222 



100-0 



The Passage of Bottle-drift from the West Indies and the 

 East Coasts of North America to the Shores of Europe. — This 

 traverse is well illustrated in the two tables above, about which a 

 few explanatory observations may here be made. Three-fourths of 

 the materials employed in the first table are furnished by the Pilot 



1 The Prince of Monaco includes in these results a small group of floats (about an 

 eighth of the total) dropped overboard due north of the Azores between the positions 

 49° 31' N. and 29° 7' W. and 48° 58' N. and 26-7 W. 



