158 TOREEN'S VOYAGE. 



The i ft of April we fet fail on-board the fliip 

 called The Gothic Lion, after the weft wind had 

 continued to blow for five months together at Go- 

 thenburgh, and had almoft induced us to believ- 

 that there is a trade-wind in the Scaggerac Sea. 

 The wind made April fools of us a ; for we 

 were forced to return before Skagen, and to 

 anchor at RifwefioL 



The 8th of April we had better fuccefs. 

 A fairer wind than the former helped us out 

 of this corner, and we continued our voyage 

 in company with many other fliips. We met 

 With nothing extraordinary ? except a Danijh 

 fhip called The Hereditary Prince, which was 

 bound for China, and had left Copenhagen the 

 4th of December, 1749; (he had therefore a 

 very perverfe wind from the time of her de- 

 parture. 



The high waves of the German Ocean, and 

 the Flemifi Coajls, hindered us from reaching 

 Dunkirk before the 19th of April. I did not 

 go on fhore, for but few had that liberty al- 



a It hence appears that the fame practical wit of duping 

 people on the firit of April obtaies in Sweden, as among our 

 wags in England. 



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