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Streamline patterns in experiments of Boyer and Biolley [Philos. Trans
. R. Soc. London Ser. A 318, 411 (1986)] on flow past a shallow ridge
on the floor of a channel in a rotating, stratified fluid exhibit a cl
ear upstream/downstream asymmetry. In this note this question is consi
dered and also a condition for the existence of an eddy in such flows
is derived by examining the mathematical properties of the solution.