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latter ar.e private opinions, which, though they may. be condemned, 

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VARIABLE WINDS 





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Though we have given a general' view of the more prevailing, 



wind 



the temperate and frozen 



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by any 



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means to fay, that there~are.no other- winds blowing in thefe zones j 

 nay, we are fo far from averting this, that we. will now give an in.- 



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fiance to the contrary. When vft croiTed the Pacific Ocean, between 



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40° and 46' South latitude, in the- year 177J, direding our courfe 

 Eafbward, we found in this run, contrary Eaflern winds frequently 

 to prevail j- and what is mere remarkable, v/hen the winds a^ain be- 



gan to cha 



nge, we obferved four different times, between June 

 5th and July 5th, that they gradually went round the compafs. 



but al way's againft the fun. 



About New Zeeland, we obferved the v^^inds to be for the moft 

 part Wefterly, and they are often in the winter very furious. 



In the feas between New Zeeland and Tierra del Fuego, in Na- 



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vember. 



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