1748, 



wind between Europe and the Azores (which the 

 failors call the Weftern I/lands) for more than two 

 days together; for the more common wind is 

 here a wefterly one : but beyond the Azores 

 they find a great variety of winds, efpecially about 

 this time of the year ; nor do the wefterly winds 

 continue long beyond thefe ifles j and to this it 

 is owing, that when navigators have pafled the 

 Azores, they think they have performed one half 

 of the voyage, although in reality it be but one 

 third part. Thefe ifles come feldom in fight ; 

 for the navigators keep off them, on account of 

 the dangerous rocks under water furrounding 

 them. Upon obfervation and companion of the 

 journal, we found that we were in forty-three 

 deg. twenty-four min. north lat. and thirty and 

 a half degrees weft long, from London. 



Aug. 22d. ABOUT noon the captain aflured 

 us, that in twenty-four hours we fhould have a 

 fouth-weft wind : and upon my enquiring into 

 the reafons of his foretelling this with certainty, 

 he pointed at fome clouds in the fouth-weft, 

 \vhofe points turned towards north-eaft, and faid 

 they were occafioned by a wind from the oppolite 

 quarter. At this time I was told we were about 

 half way to Pen/ylvania. 



Aug. 23d. ABOUT feven o'clock in the mor- 

 ning the expected fouth-weft wind fprung up, 

 and foon accelerated our courfe fo much, that 

 we went at the rate of eight knots an hour. 



Aug. 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 



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