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> " ... The note was damp, rolled tightly and wrapped with string. We took it home and dried it out, and when we opened it we saw it was a printed form, in Germ
by Kluny 9y ago
> " ... The note was damp, rolled tightly and wrapped with string. We took it home and dried it out, and when we opened it we saw it was a printed form, in German, with very faint German handwriting on it.”
It was damp? How does a slip of paper last 130 years when there's water in the bottle?
- sdrothrock 9y agoThe article also mentions that the cork or whatever sealed the bottle was missing, so it sounds like the cork got dislodged when the bottle washed ashore and that's when the contents got damp.