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APPENDIX 



6*9 miles a day (7*7, 7*3, 5*7). Of twenty-six floats thrown over be- 

 tween the Azores and the Great Bank of Newfoundland, the five 

 most rapid drifts give a mean daily rate of 5*3 miles. 



Table Illustrating the Localities from which Bottle-drift 

 reaches the azores 



(The averages for the time occupied in the drift and for the daily rate are estimated 

 from the shortest periods elapsing between the dates of the start and recovery of the 

 bottle, as given in the last column. Most of the data are from the American charts, 

 the remainder are from Schott's memoir, but all the daily rates are based on the 

 former, the details of the references being given on p. 47). 





dumber 



of 

 Bottles 



Distance 



Averages 



Shortest 

 Drifts in Miles 

 per Day 



Starting-place 



in 



Nautical 

 Miles 



Days 



Miles per 

 Day 



South of Cape Sable and Sable 

 Island between 38° and 43° N. 

 lat 



8 



1500 



294 



5-1 



5-6; 4-5 (A) 



Off Cape Hatteras within a 

 radius of 300 or 350 miles 



8 



2400 



273 



8-8 



9-9; 7-7 (B) 



Off the E. coast of Florida . . 



1 











Off the N.W. coast of Cuba 



1 



3180 



435 



7-3 





To the westward of the Azores, 

 200-750 miles W.-N.N.W. . 



9 



400 



71 



5-6 



6-4; 4-8 (C) 





27 







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(A) Drift-rates for 6 bottles. 



Note 13 (pp. 56-58). 

 Bottle-drift in the Turks Islands. 



The Turks Islands, with the neighbouring Caicos Islands and the 

 two Inaguas, have received a large amount of bottle-drift. We 

 learn from the Rev. J. H. Pusey's Handbook (1897) of these islands 

 that bottles are " constantly being picked up by the natives." 

 During my sojourn in the Turks Group in 1911 I found that the 

 coloured people had lost their interest in returning the enclosed 

 records, since no money was forthcoming. Fortunately plenty of 

 material is at my disposal for determining the directions from which 

 bottle-drift reaches this region, and also the direction it takes when 

 it passes the islands to places beyond. Below will be found data for 

 thirty-three bottles which were recovered in these islands, and for 

 forty bottles which were dropped into the sea in the middle of the 

 channel between the Turks Islands and the Hispaniola coast. 



We see there that three bottles reached here from the vicinity of 

 the Azores; one from off the south-west of Ireland; one from off 



