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WINDS. 



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refl of the ftrudlure, which is afterwards found fo tottering, that it 

 jfoon either falls down, or is by adverfaries torn to pieces.. 



We £hall therefore confine ourfelves to the enumeration of fads, 

 and leave the conclufions t6 others, or at moft, oifer them as, what 



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they really are, conje<ftures. 



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REGULAR WIND 



We found witliin and near the tropics the regular winds, as othef 

 navigators had done before us. In the year 1772, we left England^ 



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in July, and at Cape Finifterre, met with a North Eafl wind, which 

 carried us within a. few degrees of the line, where, towards the latter 

 end of Auguil:, we had rain and a S. S., W.. or S. W. wind,, whicb. 

 forced us to fail S. E. or S. E. by E. On September 8th, when 

 >ve were near the line, the wind came to the South, but in two days 

 iriore it veered round to S. S. E, fo that we could run S. W. As we 

 approached the tropic,, the wind came more round-to the Eaft ta 

 E. by N. and even N. E. and we ilood S. E. about the end of Sept.. 



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having jull paiTed the tropic. On the nth, of Odober we could 

 ftand E. by S. or nearly fo, and Eaflward^ on the i6th, the wind 

 being N. and N. by W. On the 25th of Odober, we found 

 the wind coming more Eaflward, though now and then for a Ihort 

 £ime it blew from the Eaft, fo that we failed briikly towards the 



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