1^2 en philosophical geography. Feh. 1. 



moves a pofsibiiity of accusing him of plagiarism at 

 present, as every idea he has borrowed from that ef- 

 say, he can lay claim to as his own. 



In a future number, some periodical winds that 

 take place in particular parts of the torrid zone, which 

 are of lefs extensive influence than the monsoons, to- 

 gether with the smaller deflections of the monsoons 

 tliemselves, will be taken notice of. At present, the 

 reader ftiall be no longer detained than merely to 

 point ©ut to him one of those beautiful and beneficent, 

 arrangements in nature, which the attentive observer 

 has so often occasion to remark, and to admire. 



In the great South Sea, and Atlantic Ocean, where 

 the general trade winds invariably prevail, a Ihip can 

 sail, very easily, between the tropics, from east to 

 west, by the help of the unchanging easterly wind 

 tliat there prevails ; but when he attempts to sail to 

 the eastward, in the same seas, he finds it is impof-.. 

 sible : the wind blows continually against him. He 

 has no other resource, therefore, than to stand either 

 to the southward, or the northward till he gets into 

 high latitudes, where the trade winds do not prevail. 



There he meets with variable breezes, by the aid 

 of which he is enabled to prosecute his voyage with ef- 

 fect. But if land fhould have run along, in a direc- 

 tion nearly parallel to the equator, within the limits 

 of ihe trade winds, so as to have prevented a (hip from 

 getting into the latitude of the Variable winds, what 

 would have happened if the genera/ trade winds had 

 ther? invariably prevailed ? All navigation eastward 

 must have been interrupted, as the winds would have 

 been continually opposite to the course of the vefsel. 



