340 A VOYAGE TO Book IX. 



cerning the difTerence, when we were got out of thefc 

 oppofite ccurfts of the water, the latitude by obferva- 

 tion agreed with that by account. The preceding 

 reafons alio ihew, that the perfon who tended the 

 log-line was not carelefs ; for if any error had been 

 committed here, the difference would have continued, 

 the management of it having on all occafions been 

 intruded to the fame perfon, who befid^s his fobriety 

 and attention, was a complete artiil. But the above 

 caufe is further evident from the continual unifor- 

 mity of the diilance, never exceeding ten or twelve 

 minutes; or decreafing betwixt ten and twelve 

 minutes everyday: and that if on any day the lati- 

 tude had not been obferved, on the day following 

 the difference was found double; a circumftance that 

 not only proves the reality of the currents here, but 

 likewife conñrms what we have faid in chapter 2d, 

 concerning thofe in our paffage from Conception to this 

 iffand, exclufive of thofe which will be mentioned 

 in the fequel. 



On the 7th of June, being in 33 ¿eg. 31 min. 

 latitude, and 31 deg. 37 min. tail of the meridian 

 of Conception, we fuddenly felt a itrong motion of a 

 current, which the more furprized us, as we perceived 

 nothing of that kind the day before, though in the flime 

 ladtude. However, we were confirmed that we were 

 not miftaken by our reckoning the following days, 

 till the iith, the ladtude by obfervation daily ex- 

 ceeding by 13 or 15 min. that by account; but 

 on the eleventh they again agreed. On the 12th in 

 39 deg. 44 min. latitude that by obfervation again 

 proved different to that by account, the former be- 

 ing lefs than the latter, by 13 min. And on the 

 13th the difference continued to be the fame. Thus 

 the courfe of the current continued leffening the 

 Ihip's way, by carrying us fouthvvard tilt the 15th 

 and 1 6th, when the difference became greater, but 

 in an oppofite direótion; tbat is, the currents car- 

 ried 



