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grees even when the fun is in the fouth tropic. A fafi: which 

 as Gentil i-emarks is abfolutely irrreconcilable with this theory. 

 I Gentil Voy. p. 638, 5 Gentil p. 1 16. 



3tio. Because if the conftant eafterly wind was in the nor- 

 thern hemifphere fupplied folely from the north, and in the 

 fouthern hemifphere folely from the fouth, we ihiuild in the 

 former have a conftant north wind at leaft at 35 or 40 degrees 

 from the equator, or at leaft from fome northern point, and 

 in the latter a conftant fouth wind, or at leaft from fome fouthern 

 point ; whereas on the contrary a fouth wind often prevails in 

 thofe latitudes on the north fide of the equator, and a north, 

 wind on the fouth fide. — Thus La Peyroufe met an E S. E. in 

 north latitude sa'^, and a due eaft in latitude 31*^, and a S. S. E. 

 in latitude 14*^, and a due eaft in -latitude i6''^, and a due north 

 in latitude 20-^, (where then was the relative motion ?) and a 

 due fouth in latitude 33°. See his Journal in 3d La Peyr. Voy, 

 He alfo met with a due north in latitude 27 '^ and 42* fouth, and 

 a N. N. E. in latitude 25*^ fouth. So Captain Cook met a S. S. E- 

 wind in latitude 30^ north, and alfo In latitudes 40* and 41°, 

 and a due fouth wind in latitude 3S'-' and 20" ; and in the fouthern 

 hemifphere a due north in latitude 3^, 4°, and 44*'. I might 

 produce other inftances from fea journals, and particularly 

 from that moft ample and inftrudlive, kept by ^'ajor Dal- 

 rymple during a voyage to the Eaft Indies. Phil. Tranf. 1778, 



but 



