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

been started elsewhere, or 7 they haS
not been, picked up, OF inform atiol
of their having been picked up had MOI
been forwarded to London The At
lantic, especially the portion betweel
Great Britain and the United States, il
plentifully scratched over with thes'
lines of route, "A large number Of, bot
ties thrown into the sea near the eoas
Africa were picked up on the shores o
the various West India Islands :, while
those thrown into the sea near he coasl
of the United States, found their, way
to Europe. This corresponds, to Q Ger
tain degree, with the known direction O
the currents in the Atlantic, One bot
tie seems to anticipate the Austral- Pan
anna route; for it commenced its voaygt
on the Atlantic side of the Panama 18th
mus, and landed on the Irish Coast
Another. bold bottle cut across the At
lantic, from the Canary. Islands to Nova
Scotia. Three or four, started by Arc,
tic navigators or whale fishers from the
I entrance to Davis Strait. yoyaged to
the northwest coast of Ireland One
bottle played rare pranks, It started
from the South Atlantic, jumped across
Western Africa, then across the Straits
of Giberaltar, then through Spain, across
the bay of Biscay, through juttingg-out
portion of France near Brest and landed
at5 Jersey. The truth is, that astraight
line drawn from the place of immersion
to-the place of finding, marks, out this
route; ute and such a line is the only one
which could be employed on the chart.
1t is evident that the bottle, travelled
first toward the northwest, and then to-
wards the northeast, to. get, round, the
African and European coasts very like
lyyi it approached. near i the American
coast in the course of its trip. -r.,N
= The chart affords no information re-
specting the lapse of time during which
the bottles were on their respective voy-
ages; but an accompanying table gives
af that can be. ascertained there1pon.
In this table are inserted eight items. of
information concerning each bottle and
on the chart !. the name of the sender ;
the date xhen, it was Launched, into the
sea ! the latitude of the place; the. Ion
-gitude; the place where it was found !;
The date when 1t was found and the, in
tervai in days. One of these. travellers
had been out at sea nearly sixteen years; !;
this rowing bottle was immersed in, eigh-
teen hundred and twenty-six, about mid
way across the Atlantic, and was picked
up in eighteen hundred and forty-tw
on the French coast near Brest; it may,
for aupht- we know. hare boon : lying
there nnnoticed fifteen years out of the
sixteen, for there are obviously no means
of determining the time of its arrival on
coast, unless some watcher happens to
be there at the moment. Another; bot
tie had been absent fourteen years !;
three others, ten years each; the major
ity were under. year; the shortest in
terval between the throwing out and
picking up of bottle, was FIVE days
In this last named instance, the Race
horse threw out a bottle on the seven
teenth Of April, in the Caribbean Sea
and by the twenty-seeond of the same
month the bottle had made. nice little
voyage of about three degrees of longi-
tude in .awesterly a direction, s--if
The bottle papers often contain such
notes as the following :sf /. write, this
letter in order that I may find out the
current (; let me know if ever you re-
ceive it. It is a fine day fol, the time of
the year, but we have a foul wind ~ to-
gether with such entries, as to names and
positions and dates, as will serve to in
dictate the starting point of the bottles
Captain Marshall, who launch
ed bottle off the coast of Spain, deter
mined to leave no chance untried to get
it safely forwarded by the, finder; SO he
wrote in English, " Whoever picks up
this paper, is requested to publish it in
the first newspaper, British or Foreign,
in order to show the course, of the cur
rents" in French, Ayes la brne de
publier eeci dams les journaux Franeais
ou .Anglais p p and in Spanish, :" Tenga
Y. NJ la bondad de, publican este papel
IN las, Gacetas Espanolas,; Inglesas, o
The english request .suf-
iced for. the bottle was picked up near ntsa
Dover about. nine weeks afterwards:
One of the most remarkable PotfIe7yoy
ages occurred in eighteen hundred aud
iorty-two; a ship, left Thurso for. Cana
la and when about fifteen hqndred
niles out, a bottle; was launched This
'ottle was, picked up on, the Scottish |
;oast,, within two, miles of the very port |
whence theYessel had started about five
non tbs befores.,-..,..ts.i -,
Fbe BottIe-writtesFIss' writers oceasionpiiyi" i"1 min in
lie good humor, with good Intentions, in
heir documents. Thus. q .botrle was
iicked up; containing a paper ,denoting
hat 1t had been cast a into: the sea sea from
he brig Flora, on J JulY. the twenty ninth,
ighteen lt! 5.F hundred s:I and forty + .p ran
= u1 N17 70 .,f btrs; .be:Tusao a.gs.lf 81 iis4:s (
,J'' There's divinity that sbaPes,our ends,
Rough hue them az we may. - -.
And this is to inform the mighty world,
hat the said brig is is this day in latitude
8 deg. SIS min. north, and Ion ngitude rs
Ieg.t 4 min, west, ali we'll. Therefore
ou, the lucky finder of this enclosure, +
i whatever part Of the globe. it may be,
re requested to send it under cover, ad- L
ressed to the Editor Of, the Nautical /
fagazzine, for the Benefit of navigation, I,
i some small degree towards ascertain
Ig the currents Of the ocean. We left
'oole on the nineteenth instant, bound
, 6arboneur,, in Newfoundland, and, 3
ntil these past two days, have had very
apgh Neather. The passengers have
ist had their morning lunch, with a a
lass of brown stout, and intend drink /
Ig success to the above magazine, and 4
ope. they may soon succeed in sending
nth to seannen p full and sussinet theo-
7 Of the cause Of winds, formed on aecu-
ate information from experienced nav If
,ators: Long live our beloved Queen,
nd always in the hearts of her DEVOTED
ibjects" The bottle was picked up i