| Show REVEAL TREND OF CURRENTS travel of battles bottles dropped into the ocean convey information to the navy departments Depart manta tho the lo le bureau ot of the th navy department Is always in interestedly Interest tere edl in endeavors to ascertain by bi m e hiis of bottle messages information as to the moye menta of the i oceans thesel thesa bottles contain papers that have bare been dropped overboard from vessels many places to drift at tho the mercy OZ off tha winds and waves many of phenil them have been found and picked up either in thigpen the thib open pen sea or on shores where I 1 they have been stranded knowing from their records where the bottles had been thrown overboard the bureau has been able to trace tiace in a general way the path must have followed in order to roach the places where they were found ah in one report alone there were wera aubi pub the adventures brover of over one hundred bundred ba bottles ott len being partially filled with mr air ana d then secure securely lr corked the tha bottles A float on the surface of the water and got gol wherever the windard win dand I 1 and the current ov off the sea carry them each bottle con coni i bains a record of the place and the thal date of its starting somo bome of thos found have floated for many months month ej and sometimes years and have trav aled thousands of miles it hats been found that bott leai leal dropped overboard OTer board between the chorea of the united states and england or oi prance france usually travel toward tha northeast following the bourne of that great river in the tha atlantic ocean thel th gulf cult stream bottles started off th coasts of spain and africa travel as a rule westward until they arrived among the wet west india islands along the european side elde odthe of the ocean tho the bottle takes ft a southerly course an and along the tha Amerl american can side a northerly course |
