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To the Institute for Oceanographic Research:

I hope this letter finds all of you in good health. In accordance with your instructions, we have been gathering the beer bottles, sealed with red wax, that were released for your research on tidal currents as they wash ashore. On the south coast of the island, however, we discovered three bottles that were sealed with a different material. All three bottles were found within two hundred and fifty meters of one another, either buried in the sand or stuck in gaps between rocks. In any case, it appears that all three are quite old, and the contents look to be not the government-issue postcards used for your research, but rather scraps of paper torn from a notebook, and as such it is impossible to enter the standard information in the research logs. In the case that they might provide a reference, we have decided to send you the bottles at our expense, their seals still intact and otherwise untampered with. We hope they prove useful for your research.

Sincerely,

XX Island, Town Hall