fiv EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 



By the fccond of thefe obfervations we fhall demonfiraîe^ 

 that the Atlantic Current comes from the Nortli, and fcts in 

 fouthward in our Hemifphere, contrary to the opinion of 

 Navigators, but only during Summer. Of confequence, 

 it then proceeds directly from the effufions of th,e ices of 

 the North Pole, which, in our Summer, flow toward the 

 South : and it evidently dcftroys, by this direction toward 

 the Equator, the prete^nded aâion of the Moon between 

 the Tropics, which, according to our Aftronomers, im- 

 prefles on the Ocean a motion toward both Poles. 



The firfi: of thefe obfervations is related by Mr. Thomas, 

 Fennanf, a well-informed Englifli Naturalift, unfetterecl 

 by prejudice and by fyftem, at lead as far as this important 

 fubjedl is concerned. It is extrafted from his Voyage, iri 

 1772, to the Hebrides, fmall iflands on the Weft of Scot- 

 land*. ** But," fays this enlightened Traveller, *' what 

 *' is more real, and more worthy of attention, is this, that 

 *' there are frequently found herç (on the Ifland o|" Hay) on 

 *' the coafts of all the Hebrides and Orkney Iflands, the feed^ 

 ** of the plants which grow in Jamaica, and the adjacent 

 ** Illands ; fuch as thofe of the dol'tchos urens, giiilandina 

 *' benduc, bonduceitUy the mimoja fcandem of LlNN^US. 

 •* Thefe feeds, which are here called Molucca beans, grow 

 *' on the banks of the rivers of Jamaica ; and thence wafted 

 " along by the wefterly winds and ciirrents, which predo- 

 *' minate for two-thirds of the year, in that part of the At- 

 ** lantic, they are driven even to the fliores of the Hebrides. 

 ** The fume thing fometimes happens to the turtles of 



* Printed at Gentva in 1785, in a Colle6tion of Voyages and Tra- 

 vels to the Mountuins ar.d lilands cf Scotland j Paiis, Nyon iliiior, 

 * vols. Svo. vol. 1. page 216 and zi-, 



'^ America, 



