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all along the coast of Guinea, as will be distinctly 

 -seen by the map. 



After what we have said of the winds on the 

 southern parts of these regions, it wiU be unne- 

 ■cefsary to spend much time in explaining the causes 

 of these peculiarities, as it will evidently appear 

 that they are nearly the same ; the variation here ob- 

 served being occasioned by the particular directioil 

 of the coast. Thus, along the coast of New Spain, 

 the witKl blows nearly in the same direction in eve- 

 ry place, as there are no remarkable bendings on that 

 coast ; being uniformly drawn towards the fhore, by 

 the great heat of the continent near the sea, which in 

 these regions is always more heated than the water 

 of liie ocean, and occasions that inflection. But, as 

 the coast of Africa is more irregular, the winds are 

 also found to be more different in their direction. To 

 the north of Cape Verde, as the coast stretches near- 

 ly south and north, the wind being drawn towards 

 it a little, blows from the N. W. But beyond that 

 the coast bends moi-e eastward to Cape Palmas ; from 

 which it runs E. or N. E. all along the coast of 

 Guinea, the wind fliifting gradually more and more 

 to tlie west, still pointing in upon the coast. And as 

 there is nothing to oppose the current of air, which 

 comes from the south along the coast of Angola, it 

 stretches forward till it comes within the influence of 

 the coast of Guinea, and is there drawn in towards 

 the fhore in a S. W. direction, but as it is only the 

 lower regions of the coast of Guinea which are so 

 much warmed, the high mountains within continuing 

 i-cJld, the northerly wind coming from these, meeting 



