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640 {{c|CURRENT ON WESTERN PASSAGES, ''via latitude 43°, longitude 59°. {Track No. 1.)''}}

{{c|{{smaller|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,