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mon wind is here a wefterly one : but be- 

 yond 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 ; and to this it is 

 owing, that when navigators have pafled 

 the Azores, they think they have perform- 

 ed one half of the voyage, although in rea- 

 lity 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. Up- 

 on obfervation and comparifon of the jour- 

 nal, we found that we were in forty-three 

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

 and a half degrees weft long, from London, 



Auguji the 22d. About noon the cap- 

 tain aflured us, that in twenty-four hours 

 we ftiould 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, whofe 

 points turned towards north-eaft, and faid 

 they were occafioned by a wind from the 

 oppofite quarter. At this time I was told 

 we were about half way to Penjyhania. 



Auguji the 23d. About feven o'clock 



in the morning the expeded fouth-weft 



wind fprung up, and foon accelerated our 



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