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The third series was thrown into the sea on 6th November 1896. Of 

 the five bottles put away at 10 miles from May Isle none have been 

 returned to me. Of five set adrift at 130 miles, one was found on 6th 

 September 1897, near Bergen, Norway; of five at 150 miles, one was 

 ] licked up after 118 days at Sulen, Sognefjord, Norway, another at the 

 same place four days later, and a third, after 129 days, near Slattero, 

 Norway. Two of the five set adrift at 250 miles have been recovered ; 

 one at Troenen, Nordland, Norway, 620 miles away, after 108 days 

 (showing a drift-rate of 57 geographical miles), and the other at Blomvag, 

 near Bergen, after an interval of 203 days. 



The fourth series, sent adrift on 25th and 26th December 1896, has 

 given much fuller results. Of 120 bottles used, 39 have been recovered, 

 and, with the exception of one found at Shetland (due to the reversal of 

 the current), all were picked up on the coast of Norway (32), Denmark 

 (2), or Sweden (4) ; the earliest to be found were those put away at 250 

 miles, several of which were got in the neighbourhood of Stavanger within 

 a week. The nearest point to May Isle at which the bottles were set 

 adrift was 30 miles ; two of these were recovered on the west coast of 

 Denmark in July and August in the following year ; one, a little later, 

 at Sulen, Norway, and a fourth in December 1897, on the west coast of 

 Sweden. Of the twenty set adrift at 100 miles, four have been recovered; 

 one at Risor, Norway, on 30th March 1897, after an interval of 96 days; 

 one near Lysekil, Sweden, after 170 days ; one near Bergen, Norway, 

 after 186 days, and the fourth near Stromstad, Sweden, on 20th January 

 1898, the interval being 390 days. Only one was recovered from the 

 lot put away at 150 miles; it was found on 9th April 1897 (after 104 

 days) at Fetlar, Shetland, carried there, and stranded, by the reversed 

 current referred to. Ten of the twenty set adrift at 200 miles were 

 recovered, all found on the Norwegian coast between Sulen Island, N. 

 Bergenhus, and Egersund, and mostly about Stavanger, towards the end 

 of February and in the beginning of March, after intervals of from 56 to 

 67 days. Ten were also recovered of the twenty at 250 miles ; nine of 

 them in the same area as the above, from the beginning of January to the 

 middle of February, the periods varying from six days to 55 days ; one 

 was picked up much further north, on 16th April 1897, after 111 days, 

 near Molde, Romsdal. Nine of the twenty put away at 300 miles, or a 

 point about 32 miles west of the Naze, on 27th December 1896, were 

 recovered, all on the Norwegian coast. Five were discovered at the end 

 of February in the neighbourhood of Bergen and Jaederen ; one on 3rd 

 March (67 days), near Molde; one on 16th April (112 days), near 

 Egersund, S. Norway ; one on 20th July at Rodo, Helgeland, and one on 

 30th September 20 kilometres south-south-east of Haugesund. 



On the route between the Firth of Forth and Hamburg, series were 

 set adrift on 15th and 16th August, 18th October, and 23rd and 24th 

 December 1896. In the August series, one, put away at 13 miles S.S.E. 

 of May Isle, was found on 19th May 1897, after 276 days, at Hillerslev, 

 Denmark ; one, at 20 miles, on 26th June, twelve miles east of Hants- 

 holm, Denmark; one at 30 miles 27 days later, on 11th September 1896, 

 at Blyth, Northumberland, and another of those at 30 miles, on 29th 

 June 1897, after 317 days, 44 kilometres north of Bergen. Some of 

 those put away at 130, 150, and 200, 250, and 300 miles were found at 

 intervals of from 44 to 200 days, on the south and south-west coasts of 

 Norway, on the west coast of Sweden, and the Ghristianiafjord. 



Of fifty bottles thrown into the sea along this route on 18th October 

 1896, 17 were recovered. Four of the five set adrift at 20 miles S.E. 

 by S. of May Isle were stranded on the Berwick and Northumberland 

 coast within a few days ; six of the ten at 30 and 50 miles were got on 



