Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1875 — A Curious Geographical Problem. [ARTICLE]

A Curious Geographical Problem.

A curious geographical problem is suggested by the appearance at the moutfif'of the Seine, near Havre, in the course of the present month, of one of the-hermetically-sealed bottles, in wooden cases, which were thrown overboard during Prince Napoleon’s North Pole expedition in 1860. Wooden-covered bottles of this kind were thrown into the sea daily in the month of June In that year from the Prince’s ship, in the expectation that the course taken by them would lead to the elucidation of the direction of the greater oceanic currents ; but during the fourteen and a half years that have intervened since then none of these bottles have been seen till the present one was washed ashore. Its appearance at the mouth of the Seine seems to indicate that a polar current must be borne into the German Ocean, and must be carried thence through the channel to the western coast of France.— Eclectic.