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Upon the Navigation from 
NEWFOUNDLAND tro NEW-YORK, 
In order to avoid the 
GULPH;,STREAM 
On one band, and on the other the SHoAts that lie to the Southward of 
Nantucket and of St. George’s Banks. 
FTER you have paffed the Banks of Newfoundland in about 
A the 44th degree of latitude, you will meet with nothing, till 
you draw near the Ile of Sables, which we commonly pafs in la- 
titude’43. Southward of this ifle, the current is found to extend 
itfelf as far North as 41° 20/ or 30’, then it turns towards the E. 
S. E. or S. E. 3 E. 
Having paffed the Ifle of Sables, fhape your courfe for the St. 
George’s Banks, fo as to pafs them in about latitude 40°, becaufe 
the current fouthward of thofe banks reaches as far North as 39°. 
The fhoals of thofe banks lie in 41° 35’. 
After having paffed St. George’s Banks, you muft, to clear Nan- 
tucket, form your courfe fo as to pafs between the latitudes 38° 30 
and 40° 45’. 
The moft fouthern part of the fhoals of Nantucket lie in about 
40° 45’. The northern part of the current directly to the fouth of 
Nantucket is felt in about latitude 38° 30’. 
By obferving thefe directions and keeping between the ftream 
and the fhoals, the paflage from the Banks of Newfoundland to 
New-York, Delaware, or Virginia, may be confiderably fhorten- 
ed; for fo you will have the advantage of the eddy current, which 
Moves contrary to the Gulph Stream. Whereas if to avoid the 
Shoals you keep too far to the fouthward, and get into that ftream, 
you will be retarded by it at the rate of 60 or 70 miles a day. 
The Nantucket whale-men being extremely well acquainted with 
the Gulph Stream, its courfe, ftrength and extent, by their con- 
ftant practice of whaling on the edges of it, from their ifland quite 
down to the Bahamas, this draft of that ftream was obtained from 
one of them, Capt. Folger, and caufed to be engraved on the old 
chart in London, for the benefit of navigators, by 
B. FRANKLIN. 
Note, The Nantucket captains who are acquainted with this 
ftream, make their voyages from England to Bofton in as 
fhort a time generally as others take in going from Bolton 
to England, viz. from 20 to 30 days, 
A ftranger may know when he is in the Gulph Stream, by 
the warmth of the water, which is much greater than that 
of the water on each fide of it. If then he is bound to the 
weftward, he fhould crofgs the ftream to get out of it as foon 
as poflible, 
B. F. 
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