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THE 



WINDS., ftrength and diredion, muft never be compared with that of the 



Eallern trade- winds. 



Wlien we came far to the South, and were either within or near 



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the antariflic circle, we found again, that the Eaft winds are the 

 moft conftant, and prevail the longefl*. 



If therefore, there is any dependance on thefe obfervations, it is 

 probable that thefe Eafterly winds are, as it were, only a kind of 



ddy-wind, formed by the 



general Weflern winds in the 



temperate 



So that we might, perhaps., confider the whole 

 : within the tropics, the great rarefadion of the 

 atmofphere caufed by the heat of the vertical fun produces the 



th 



manner 



Eaflern trade winds 



this conflant motion of the Aerial Fluid 



the Eaft, caufes towards the temp 



kind of eddv, fo 



that the winds turn gradually South and North, and lailly Wefl, 



v/hich is the prevailing winds of both the temperate zones.. 



But 



this ftreaming of the air to the E aft., is again in the cold frozen 

 zones counterpoifed by another kind of eddy wind from the Eafl. 

 We have already mentioned, that we wifli that the fads we relate 



may 



'* See the Recueil des Voyages q^'i ont fervi ii 1' etabllirement & aii Progres de la Compagriie 

 ,4des Indes Orientales, vol. i. in the Third Voyage of Barentz. 



See BalrympUs Collcaion of Voyages in the Southern Atlantic Ocean, Capt. Halley's 



Journal, p. 52. 



The fame Eaft wind has Ijeen obferved by other Navigators within or near the Polar Ifles. 



Barr'ington's Probability of reaching the North Pole, p. 104 



Summary Obfervations and Fafts, by Mr. Faltravers ^ 

 Eail Is ftrong and rapid in thofe fcas<, 



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The common current from the 



