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Easterly cur- West of tlic Sandwich Islands, and nearly on their thenrwaiil parallel, a current has also been found setting towards archipelago. ^]^g ^^^^ . j^ jg ^j^^^^ Jolmstou calls the entang-lefnent of the easterly current. The existence of this fact is shown in a positive manner by the observations of Prussian navigators. Moreover, Preycinet has spoken of it, Beechey mentions it, and, finally, Lutk^ has collected numerous observations which prove the existence of certain currents setting ...towards the east, in the belt where the trade-winds blow with most strength. Scientific men have endeavored to determine the cause of this perturbation in the north equatorial current. "We hope to show directly, by the observations on temperature made by M. de Tes- san, that what has been regarded up to this time as a disturbance of the equatorial current is in reality only the Japan Current (analogous to the Gulf-Stream of the Atlantic Ocean), of whicli * It is not a counter-current of wliich we are now speaking, but a current caused, in part at least, by the S.'W.
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