TO TEST OCEAN CURRENTS.
Curious experiments are being carried out by Captain Sm*pson of the steamship Moravian to test the course and speed of ocean currents. For the past fifteen yc**s doring the passage of this liner between Plymonth, South Africa, and Australia the captain has every day thrown overboard a tightly corked beer bottle containing a scroll bearing latitude, longitude, and date when cast adrift, together with a request to the finder to forward the bottle to him at the London office of the steamship line. The captain, who is a member of the British Meteorological Society, keeps a careful record of his daily operations. The number of bottles returned to him, however, is very small, the average being less than one per year.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2008, 1 October 1906, Page 7
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125TO TEST OCEAN CURRENTS. Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2008, 1 October 1906, Page 7
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