The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1899-02-23

the longest dfiit vs recovered 90 Msfet
20 is9s, having ,siled Also knois sinc'
November l6. 1899, when /, ws ihross
overheard. Darag oil this time ih'
average ntmbcr Of kt OTIS covered sdsy va
a5, Another bottle ihroun overheard ia
sspteu bet. 1894 and recovered May. lsai
had sailed 800. a 40 average of a.
kpots day,
The greatest record OF all, however, is
that Of . bottle thrown over from the
stesmer Sutb,rlspd, which dnited 1000
kuots between March III. 1897. aud Sep
ten btr s iollowinF, . period OF Isl days
the average driit . day being 2!7 Anols,
Follosips close upon this Is the record oi
. bottle tossed into the 90. from the bark
riuto Hit. IL driited $500 koo.s be
tween April 25. 1897, and December /.
iollosips, Another bottle Ia aity.tvo
days drited 200 miles, or sn average Of
23 | knots a day, while one thrown over
board from the ship Gull Of Lyons, driit
ed !. 900 miles 10 seventy.sisht dsys. OF IN
average Of "a 4 knots day. The greatest
driil . day is that recorded Of the bottle
thrown from the steamer Prince freds
rick Hendrix on May 7 las, snd recovered
90 My 13. hsvipg driited IN six days 100
miles 81 sn average i3l,7 knots day.
0il In the Pacific. whsre the e1perl
msuts are beioe conducted also, the bot
tles are not reported so often owing to The
light commerce compared witt that OF the
Atlantic aud the enormous number OF
miles between shores. oie bettle pick ed
up out there covered 4 900 miles, however
10 less than one year and another the same
distance 10 I59 days, the average being
ll.2 and S 7 knots day. Eleven hundred
miles we're covered 10 iorly-two days by
one bette ut an average rste OF 70 2 knots
day
Certain OF the bottles recovered present
interesting particulars. Oae that was
cs.t overheard of Nantucket Shosl was re
covered near Csmpbel,oo, on the coast Of
Kirtyre. Areylshire. Scotland, alter
lapse OF 5l2 days. The great circles dis
tsncs between these places is 2.2S7 nsuli
cal miles. giving en- average daily velocity
OF miles. There is CLOSE comparison
between the trip OF this bottle and that Of
the one cast overheard of Cape God and
recovered oa the coast OF Cornwall, the
distance trsversed being the same ss 10
the previous case, and the interval GOO
days, the average daily velocity being "A
miles day.
Another interesting group OF bottles
consists OF three. oil thrown overheard
from the steamer Dago. Captain Scrogsie,
on the same day and hour, 10 latitude 81
north longitude Al west, aud all recovered
after drlit OF l 200 miller, within short
distance OF each other. and during the
same week. The fact that these bottles
we're recovered at approximately the same
time would indicate that they we're picked
up shortly after landing. In which case
the mean OF the three would furnish =
good value for the actual velocity of the
DRIFT 10 this latitude during the winter
season. This mean is 90 knots day.
Two bottles were thrown overheard 10
m ocean. One OF them was recovered
on the coast Of Devonshire, England, and
the other on the coast Of Florida. The re
covery OF the bottles cast adrlit 10 this
region, although it is crossed by several Of
tho most important trade routes, is rare,
the records furnishing only Biz cases since
1885, The track Of the derelict Fannie r.
Wolston shows the character Of the DRIFT
10 that region. This vessel was reported
forty-six times within . period OF three
years and siI days, during which time she
covered 1896 miles.