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AV oyage from Jamaica. to England. 
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call’d by Natural Hiftorians Urtice Marine, floating about us, they refembled 
in, their. Shape.fmall Sails, their Body was Gelly, they . had fome 
fertugineous, Spots and Streaks on them, their Motion was chiefly in their 
Circumference, and they had Hight redifh Lines in their Infides. We 
had here likewile a {mall long Fifh, like that called in the Voyageto Famaica, 
Barracuda, or Serpens Marinus, Oc. and geeat Plenty of Gulf-weed, as 
alfo a Sort of',Sea Swellow, .which was whitifh, and flew Jow:on the 
Water. Tho’ the Ships were clean when we came from Port-Royal, 
yet now their Sides were very fowl, by pretty large Bernacles, and 
the. Conferva Marina fticking to them. | : is date 
_ April 9, We were in 28°, 25 min. N. Latitude, we had run from: Yefteré 
day when the Wind proved fair, 26 Leagues V.N. E. and took a Shark four 
or five Footlong; it had feveral ,Rows,,of moveable. triangular . Teeth, 
beisg jagged of each fide like a Saws)a very owide Ocfophagas; few 
Circumvolutions-of the Guts, five Holes,for, the Gills, feveral’ yellowifh 
Eggs in the Ovary fill’d with a Subftance like Yolks of Eggs as big 
as imall Wallnuts, the Useras had a great many Veins in it. The 
Flefh feem’d, actually hot, .it, had a. great deal of Blood, the Brain was 
fmall and like the cortical Part of a human Brain. :Behind:the Head 
were two Holes, in which lay a white wet foft Subftance, as thick as 
a mill’d. Shilling, not round, but of an uncertain ifregular Figure, when 
dry, mouldring toa white Powder. Thisjis whatiscall’dy Lapis I shuronum 
and is faid.to be good to, facilitate: the Birth of Children and.makiag 
Water. , There, were feveral Cavities, or Holes.on the Skim ovtwards 
ly, which {pewed out a, Mycas for lubricating the Fifh, in ordemto 
make it the more fwift,, and, were joined to Gelatinous or Caitilagi 
nous Duéts, which I believe .were excretory, from: fome, Glands. . 
April 17. The James. and Mary, one of sour. Fleets -, 
which was a,Signal of Diftrefs, and came from swig aect 
on her Bend or the fore part of the Ship, where two or: thtee-others 
gave Way, and were like..to .be in the fame Condition. The Ships 
in the whole Fleet lay bye, and fent their Carpenters to help to: mend 
this Misfortune; and then we continued our Courfe for England; Her 
Grace the Dutchefs of Albemarle remov’d out of the Afjijtance ‘Frigat 
appointed to bring her into Eg/and, and carried her Plate and Jewels 
into, the late Duke her. Husband’s Yacht, and afterwards into a. Shi 
of better Defence againft Enemies or thofe Seas, commanded by Sir 
William Robinfon, The Commander of the Afffance had laid; that’ he 
could not Fight any Ship, having King ames’s Commiffion, from 
whom he had. receiv’d his; upon which her Grace was afraid fhe 
might be carried with her Plate and Jewels into France apprehendin 
from the Situation of publick Affairs, fome Differences might be beg 
tween the two Nations. Our Admiral then pretended he wanted Wa 
ter, and muft make the beft of his Way for England, without ftaying:to 
Convoy us Homé, which accordingly he did. 3 e 
April 22. 1689. We were in 35°, 40 min. N. Latit Es 
under a main Coutfe and Mizes, the Wind at Esp, very ba Weather the 
fair. The Ships heel’d, as the Seamen call it, or Jay fo.on one fide 
driving with the Wind, that the eldeft Sailors, and thofe moft accuftom’d 
to the Sea, were Sea-fick and could noc keep their Legs: I found after- 
wards, that this great Storm had been at the fame time in moft Parts 
of the As/antis Ocean, between America and Englands | 
April 
