The Channel. 3 



"Aug. I3th. TOWARDS night we got out of 

 the Englijh channel into the Bay ofBifcay. 



Aug. 1 4th. WE had contrary wind, and this 

 increafed the rolling of the (hip, for it is gene- 

 rally remarked that the'Zfoy of Bifcay has the 

 greateft and broadeft waves, which are of equal 

 fize of thofe between America and Europe ; they 

 are commonly half an Engli/b mile in length, and 

 have a height proportionable to it. The Baltic 

 and the German ocean has on the contrary fliort 

 and broken waves. 



WHENEVER an animal is killed on board the 

 (hip, the failors commonly hang fome frefli pieces 

 of meat for a while into the fea, and it is faid, it 

 then keeps better. 



Aug. 1 5th. THE fame fwell of the fea ftill 

 continued, but the waves began to fmooth, and 

 a foam fwimming on them was faid to forebode 

 in calm weather, a continuance of the fame for 

 fome days. 



ABOUT noon a north-eafterly breeze fprung 

 up, and in the afternoon it blew more, and this 

 gave us a fine fpedtacle ; for the great waves roll- 

 ed the water in great (beets, in one dirediion, 

 and the north-eafterly wind curled the furface of 

 thefe waves quite in another. By the beating and 

 darning of the waves again ft one another, with a 

 more than ordinary violence, we could fee that 

 we pafled a current, vvhofe direction the captain 

 could not determine. 



Aug. 1 6th zift. THE fame favourable breeze 

 continued to our great comfort and amazement, 

 for the captain obferved that it was very uncom- 

 mon to meet with an eafterly or north-eafterly 



B 2, wind 



