6 Augujl 1748. 



courfe fo much, that we went at the rate 

 of eight knots an hour. 



Augujl the 24th. The wind fhifted and 

 was in our teeth. We were told by fome 

 of the crew to expect a little ftorm, the 

 higher clouds being very thin and ftriped 

 and fcattered about the fky like parcels of 

 combed wool, or fo many ikains of yarn, 

 which they faid forebode a ftorm. Thefe 

 ftriped clouds ran north-weft and fouth- 

 eaft, in the direction of the wind we then 

 had. Towards night the wind abated and 

 we had a perfect calm, which is a fign of 

 a change of wind. 



Auguft the 25th. and 26th. A west 

 wind fprung up and grew ftronger and 

 ftronger, fo that at laft the waves wafhed 

 our deck. 



Augujl the 27th. In the morning we 

 got a better wind, which went through va- 

 rious points of the compafs and brought on 

 a ftorm from north-eaft towards night. 



Our captain told me an obfervation found- 

 ed on long experience, viz. that though 

 the winds changed frequently in the Atlantic 

 ocean, efpecially in fummer time, the moft 

 frequent however was the weftern, and 

 this accounts for the paftage from Ame- 

 rica to Europe commonly being ihorter, 



than 



