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North. In this direélion, that fouthern Current 

 pafles, almoft throughout, from a wider fpace into 

 a narrower, being confined, firft of all, between 

 Cape Horn and the Cape of Good-Hope, and 

 forcing it's way upward, into the very bays and 

 mediterraneans of the North, it carries before it, at 

 once, the whole mafs of the waters of the Atlantic 

 Ocean, without permitting a fingle column of 

 them to efcape, to the right or to the left. At the 

 fame time, fhould it meet on it's road, a Cape or 

 Strait oppofing it's courfe, there can be no doubt 

 that it would there form a lateral counter-current, 

 or tides, which would run in the oppofite direélion. 

 This, accordingly, is the adual effedt which it pro- 

 duces at Cape Saint-Auguftin in America, and 

 above the Gulf of Guinea, toward the tenth de- 

 gree of northern Latitude, in Africa j that is, at 

 the two places where thefe two parts of the Globe 

 approach the neareft : for in the fummer of the 

 South-Pole, the Currents and the tides, fo far from 

 bearing northward below thefe two points, return 

 to the fouth on the American fide, and run eaft- 

 ward on the African fide, the whole length of the 

 Gulf of Guinea, in contradiftion to all the Laws 

 of the Lunar Syftem. 



I could fill a Volume with new proofs, in fup- 

 port of the alternate fufion of the polar ices, and 

 of the elongation of the Earth at the Poles, which 



are 



