Show REVEAL TREND OF CURRENT 9 travel of dottle bottles dropped hito th the ocean convey information to the navy departments Depart manti the lo bureau ot of bf navy narle department Is always interested edl in endeavors avore to ascertain by means I 1 of bottlo battle messages information as aa movements of the oceans these bottles contain papers that tha havo boon beon dropped overboard from vessels I 1 in many places to drift at tile tho mercy on the winds and wr w R many of themi them havo been found I 1 picked up elther either in tho the open sea or on shores ibera w they have been tr ended knowing from their records ahers tho the bottles had been thrown over board the bureau has been able to trace in a general way tho path the they ti must have followed in order to reach tha ilia places where they were wera found in ono one report alone there were published dished the adventures of over one bundred bottles doing partially tilled filled with air and then securely corked the bottles float on tho the surface ot of the water and go wherever the wind and the current ov oc the sea ia carry them each battla contains a record of the place and date of its starting some som or of those thos fount have floated for many months montha and sometimes years and have trav oled cled thousands of miles it has been found that bottles bott leo dropped overboard between the shores of the united states and england or franco usually travel toward th northeast following tho the course of chitti great river in the atlantic ocean thol thoi gulf stream bottles started oil th teiei coasts of spa and africa travel atit B a rule westward west until they arrive among tho the wo wet t india li Is along the european bids of the ocean th thea bottlo takes a southerly cour salland along the american side it A nor northerly northera therl course |