CURRENTS OF THE OCEAN NEAR 'HIE INLANDS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume II, Issue 80, 8 February 1854, Page 4

CURRENTS OF THE OCEAN NEAR 'HIE INLANDS.

On the 27th of October a small rank drift' ctl ashore ,it Hiiuiik Wand of Oahu, vvlneh w.in opened by a u.tive, und found to coniaiim tin cuse about lonrtecii inrlies long. He brought the cabC to Honolulu, und on owning it it wua lound lo contain a memorandum, written hi several lungu. aguii, the pnrpoit <il uln-li wn«, Hint tlie onto \»i>» thrown overbonrd fiom H. B. MA Ship, Kut« tlesnnUt!, on the twentieth of July 1853, Latitude 21 dig, 7 mm. N., Longuudo <lc n '. 151 31 West. It wai requeued that any one finding the cosa ohoulil forward if to tin- Admnulty in England, in order thai ihe current), might bedolermined which had flo.iti'd tin- cunlt until picKed up. It appear* from the dalcl, positions. S.C that the ois.k wm just one bundled days afloat, a I that It mode one half a degren ol latitude north, and six deg. tivonty-one mm. longitude west linuulu is in )■.»• litude tnonty-unc deg, foity-lour mm. north, and is siruatcd on the windwnrd side of Oalin, in the district of Koolnuloa, some thirty milen Irom Honolulu. The ducance from the point where the oa»k «"* thrown ovu'lioard, to the place where it was picked up, win viry m-nrly three hundred and inly miles — showing a neatly we9terly ourrent of 3 1-U miles in tttcniy»four houifi, mcluduiK, howevei, the aciion ..f the wmU upon that portion of i lk- cauli cxpiricd above the surlace of the n.iter. — PolynoMdii, Nov, 5.