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HUTTONIAN THEORY. 



4^9 



for 



r 



enriching the dqtails of his fcience with the 

 mod intereding facts in hiftory or in phjfics, has 

 fhewn, that along the eaftern coaft of Africa^ 

 from about the mouth of the Red Sea, a current 

 fifty leagues in breadth fets continually towards 

 the fouth-well *. It doubles the Cape of Good 

 Hope, runs from thence north-weft, preferving 



I r 



hole the diredion of the coaft, but 



4 



ito the ocean, that, about the 

 ilena, its breadth exceeds lo 

 ince, as it approaches the lii 



on 



the 



reaching fo far i 

 parallel of St H 



miles. 



From th 



direction is more nearly eajl 



d meeting 



hich 



the parallel of 3*^ north, with a current v 

 has come along the weftern co^lt of Africa from 

 the north, the two united Itretch acrofs the At- 

 lantic, in a line fomewhat fouth of weft, and 



wide and rapid Itreara. This ftream 



a 



very 



meets the American 



■ t 



d at Cape St Roq 



where it is joined by another coming up J|long 

 the eaftern fliore of that continent, and dired- 



i north. They proceed north- 



ed 



■ 



ds th 



ward together till they 



th 



Gulf of Fl 



rida, frorfl which being as it were refleded, they 



fo 



m 



the Gulf-ftream, palling along th 



coail 



of North America, and ftretching acrofs the At 



lanti 



the Britifh llle 



± 



IS to the fouth 



From thence th 



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* Geography of Herodotus, p. 672. 



