A.D. 

 1576. 



[III. I 5 .] 



An objection 

 answered. 

 The sea doth 

 evermore per- 

 forme this cir 

 cidar motion, 

 either in 

 Suprema, or 

 concava super- 

 ficie aquce. 



The yce set 

 westward 

 every yeere 

 from Island. 

 Auth. Jona 

 Arngrimo. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



It may (peradventure) bee thought that this course of 

 the sea doth sometime surcease, and thereby impugne 

 this principle, because it is not discerned all along the 

 coast of America, in such sort as Jaques Cartier found 

 it : Whereunto I answere this : that albeit, in every part 

 of the Coast of America, or elswhere this current is not 

 sensibly perceived, yet it hath evermore such like motion, 

 either in the uppermost or nethermost part of the sea : 

 as it may be proved true, if ye sinke a sayle by a couple 

 of ropes, neere the ground, fastening to the nethermost 

 corners two gunne chambers or other weights : by the 

 driving whereof you shall plainely perceive, the course 

 of the water, and current, running with such course in 

 the bottome. 



By the like experiment, you may finde the ordinary 

 motion of the sea, in the Ocean : howe farre soever you 

 be off the land. 



9 Also there commeth another current from out the 

 Northeast from the Scythian Sea (as M. Jenkinson a man 

 of rare vertue, great travaile and experience, told me) 

 which runneth Westward towardes Labrador, as the other 

 did, which commeth from the South : so that both these 

 currents, must have way thorow this our fret, or else 

 encounter together and runne contrarie courses, in one 

 line, but no such conflicts of streames, or contrary courses 

 are found about any part of Labrodor, or Terra nova, as 

 witnesse our yeerely fishers, and other saylers that way, 

 but is there disgested, as aforesayd, and found by ex- 

 perience of Barnard de la Torre, to fall into Mar del Sur. 



10 Furthermore, the current in the great Ocean, could 

 not have beene maintained to runne continually one way, 

 from the beginning of the world unto this day, had there 

 not beene some thorow passage by the fret aforesayd, and 

 so by circular motion bee brought againe to maintaine it 

 selfe : For the Tides and courses of the sea are main- 

 tayned by their interchangeable motions : as fresh rivers 

 are by springs, by ebbing and flowing, by rarefaction and 

 condensation. 



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