The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-06-21

on the coast OF Cuba, ABOUT went.
, months afterwards. f,;,, ;s.,a,so- had
FL The bottle chart in the Nautical Mag
{ azine attracted much attention among
! sea faring men,, Sir John Ross pointed
out how much caution is required before
i inferences can. safely be drawn concern
ing ocean currents from the apparent voy
ages of these itinerant bottles. 4, He in
j sisted on the fact that a light floating
bottle is very decidedly affected by the
wind, let the current be flowing in what
direction it may. To try this, he shaped
!, fat piece of wood exactly the length
T and diameter of a bottle; this being
loaded with lead, SO that the neck par
4 only was visible when Immersed, wa.
sealed bottle was thrown overheard al
Il the same time a gale of westerly WIND
was blowing; and it was observed that
1 the bottle was drifted along by this wind
while the immersed wood of the, same
dimensions remained comparatively sta
4 ttionary.' On another occasion he filled
bottle with pitch, to such an extent as
to enable it to swim upright with only
the neck above water; when this an
an empty bottle were thrown into the
sea, the latter separated to leeward Of
1 the former at the rate of a quarter of a
quarter of mile per hour. When Sir
John went on his arctic voyage in eigh-
teen hundred and eighteen, he threw
ioverboard twenty-five copper cylinders
in Davis Straits; they" were of just
such weight as to show an inch or two
above water at one END; but it was not
knowna that any of these had reached the
British coast in the succeeding Fifteen
years--a factwhich seemed to him to IN
validate certain reasonings respecting
'currents inothe northern part ofithe At
i lanticiis oYi.zsCJ ,I0d7ssa esi} - 9o"sij
1iaCommander yFishbonrne, we'll Known
| in. dur coast surveys, combatted some OF
the views of Sir John Ross, and insisted
ON the great maratime value of the bot
tle-paper SYSTEM under due caution
Iagainst styigeneralizatioh. Heatothe
same time. suggested that it might be a
! good plan to- employ white bottles, the
fglass being rendered opaquely white by
boxide of ;arsenic.1 3. He thinks that The
] bottle might be rendered visible enough
to. be, seen from the deck of ship, and
that, whenpicked up, the contents might
be iopenedsand registered; additional in
formation introduced, and the bottle re-
launched. This might be very valua-
BILE adjunct. t6-the system. rs 9a1 ~
{ 2 Two canisters thrown into the sea by
Sir James Clark Ross, while on board
the Efebus, IN his voyage to the Ant
articsseas, ineighteen hundred and forty
three, ,5were picked up, some months af-
terwards, one; on the coast of ireland,
and the other out at sea off Leg
horrI.=45A third made more than half Q
circumnavigation of the globe in a high
southern latitude, before it found its
resting place on the shores of Australia
Judging from the narratives of our sea-
captains, the Pacific would be a capital
theatre for the bottle experiment. 1t
presents such a vast expanse of water,
and the interspersed islands are mostly
so small, that bottle-voyage of five or
six thousand miles might easily be made
The bottle-papershave given us more
information concerning the progress of
the many recent Arctic expeditions than
would be supposed by persons who have
only glanced cursorily at the matter
Captain Bird threw overheard cask
containing papers, when on board the
Investigator IN eighteen hundred and
forty-eight. It was picked up by the
Prince of Wales, Hull whaler, and af-
forded to theAdmiralty evidence of the
position of the Enterprise and Investiga-
tor on a particular day. From the same
ship but when under the command of
Captain NJ Clure, (who has since made
himself famous by the discovery of the
northwest passage,1 a bottle was thrown
out while she was veyaging down the
Atlantic towards the Behring's Strait
route, in February eighteen hundred and
fifty The bottle foated three Thousand
six hundred miles in two hundred and
six days, and was picked up on the coast
of Honduras, By avery singular coin
cidence, Captain Collinson,- who com
manded the Enterprise, the companion
ship to the Investigator threw out a
bottle, which found resting place near
the other BOTTLE but under very different
circumstances. 4 Mcclure launched his
bottle near Cape Verde islands, Collin
son launched his, six. hundred miles far
ther south, and nine. days afterwards
yet both bottles found their way to. the
Honduras coast, as if a. fellow feeling
actpated them as well as the ecaptaipsot
J. One of the most textEaerdina bottle
voyages, or cask-voyages, yet recorded,
occupied public, attention, year orYtwo
ago. The story runs, thus :je4sfo jzsr
Is Captain, psAuberEiile in the, bark
g(llieftain, q of Boston, put into 6 FbrslEar
On the twenty 74ssey yenthiof August eighteen
hundred and sfftyzoneo Heiwent, with
two of his passengers, across the Straits
to Mount AbYlus, on the African. coast
as they were on the, point of returning,
one; of the crew picked up what appeared
to, be a piece of rock, .bnt which the cap
tain thought to be kind of pumiceistone
On examination, it was found to. be ace
dan: keg completely; inerusted with barn
lcles and other marine shells, The keg
was opened, and within was found a CO.
,oanut, engeloped in a kind of gum or
resinous substance, I, Within the cocoa
aut shell was a piece of parchment cover
ID with very old writing, which none of
hose present could reaa.- IAN. ,Ameri-
IAN merchant in Gibraltar then read it,
ind found that it. was brief account,
irawn up by C. Christopher Columbus, in
ourteen hundred and. ninety three, Of
us American discoveries up to that time.
{ was addressed to Ferdinand, and Isa-
ELLA. It stated that, according to the
griters Judgment, the ships could not
uryiye another day; that they were be-
ween the Western Isles and Spain; that
wo similar narratives were written and ii
brown into the, sea, In case the carayal
hould go to- the bottom; in the hope
hat some mariner might pick up one or
thor If them There In nothinr, o,t | ,