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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.
CURRENT ON WESTERN PASSAGES,
via latitude 43°, longitude 59°. {Track No. 1.)
CURRENT ON WESTERN PASSAGES,
via Southern Route. (Tracks Nos. 4. and 5.)
As long as our navigation laws of the last century continue unrepealed, probably the facts contained in the above tables will be of little interest to steamship-owners in the United States; but underwriters and shippers are certainly concerned, as to the proportion of steamers in the North Atlantic trade that escape from or meet with detention,
