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In the Dsvms, tban at Tprty: and on flymouth-Qtäst, morc than past rhcLands-End j and in the Bay ofßifcy, than in the Long Rtach. Somethingperhaps may be Imputed to the Difference of the Wavtt, which are Sbort,and make a Cofhng-Sea in the Bay of Bifcay (yet we came not within 80Leagues of Cape Finü-Terra : ) m the Long-Reacb it isa Lang Roüing Wave,but never Breaks. About Florida , Virginia, and New-England, it is agreat Rolltng Wave, .but Breaks. And as the Sea Coloureth trom Green toDarkijh, and 1 b to Blue : so ia our Return it Colour’d from Blue to Dark,and foto Green. Wheti we : wrre in the Latitude of Barbadoes, and badSail’dsofor (omeDays, and Apprehended our felves to be within 70 er 80Leagues, I obferv’d the Sea was Black and Thick, not Tranfparently Blue,as before, and the Foant against the Ship sides was Turbid, and of anotherConsistence,th an before : Butwhen the Sun was High it Turn’dGreenj where-upon I ask’d the Master, who told me, we were within 60 Leagues of Bar-badoes, and that the Sea was thtre Soundable, whereas before it was not so.But at Barbadoes , in the Anchoring Places it was Blue ; as we Row’d A-stiore, in the Shallow it was Whitijh : And so at Jamaica near the Shore itis Tranfparently White, but within 3 Yards tnbre, Tranfparently Blue,

Asto th e Burni»g ofthe Sea, 1 could never observe so great a Light, asto pereeive Fijhes in the Sea, off the Stern; yet was the Light Great, and atsometimes more than other. 1 fuppofesoveral Subject Earths, CurrentsandWinds do vary it. I observed it Burrtd more at Deal the Night before wefet Sail, tban ever in tbe Voyage: All tbe Water ran off our Oars, almofflike Liquid lire ; the Wind was then 8. E. and tbe Sea-men told me, that atEaft and South Winds it Burn’d most.

Hhallnot troubleyou with an Account, howTwo Contrary Winds Poiseeach other, and make a Calm in the Midst, Ships at a Distance Sailing wichContrary G alles at the fame time.

It is Obßrvable, that in the Indies, such Places as have any High Moun-tains, have also every Night a Wind, that blows from the Land, Maugrethe Levantine Wind which Blows at Sea (but with a Slacker Gale at Night •which feems to fhewit depends not only on the Motion of the Earrh, butSun.J There is none at Barbadoes or Saona \ but at all the other Islands; Andin Jamaica every Night it Blows off the Island every Way at Once, so thatno Ship esn any where come in by Night, nor go out butearly in theMor-ning, before the Sea-brife come in. 1 have often thought on it, and couldImagine no other reason, but that thofe Exhalations, which the Sun bathraised in the Day, make hast (after bis strength no longer sijpports them) tothofe Mountains by a Motion ot Similar Attrafficn,smd t.here gather in Clouds,and break tbence, by their own force and Weight, and occasion a Windevery way: Foras the Sun Declines, the Clouds gather, and Shape zccord'mgto the jYlcuntains, so that Old Seamen will teil ycu each Ißand in the Aster-noon towards Evening, by rhe Shape of the Cloud over it. And chis Attrafti-on appears further, not only from tbe Rain that gathers on tbe Tree in theIstand of Ferro, fpoken of by Sir R. Hawkins in his Observations, and If,

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