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fix months from the northward, and the other fix months* 

 from the fouthward, in the Arabian Gulf : While in the 

 Indian Ocean, without the Straits of Babelmandeb, they 

 blow juft the contrary at the fame feafons ; that is, in fummer 

 from the fouthward, and in winter from the northward, 

 fubject to a fmall inflexion to the eaft and to the weft. 



The reader will obferve, then, that, a vefTel failing from 

 Suez or the Elanitic Gulf, in any of the fummer months, 

 will find a fteady wind at north-weft, which will carry it in 

 the direction of the Gulf to Mocha. At Mocha, the coaft is 

 €aft and weft to the Straits of Babelmandeb, fo that the vef- 

 fel from Mocha will have variable winds for a fhort fpace, 

 but moftly wefterly, and thefe will carry her on to the 

 Straits. She is then done with the monfoon in the Gulf, 

 which was from the north, and, being in the Indian Ocean, 

 is taken up by the monfoon which blows in the fummer 

 months there, and is directly contrary to what obtains in 

 the Gulf. This is a fouth-wefter, which carries the vefTel 

 with a flowing fail to any part in India, without delay or 

 impediment, 



The fame happens upon her return home. She fails in 

 the winter months by the monfoon proper to that fea, that 

 is, with a north-eaft, which carries her through the Straits 

 of Babelmandeb, She finds, within the Gulf, a wind at 

 fouth-eaft, directly contrary to what was in the ocean ; but 

 then her courfe is contrary likewife, fo that a fouth-eafter, 

 anfwering to the direction of the Gulf, carries her directly 

 to Suez, or the Elanitic Gulf, to whichever way flie pro- 

 pofes going. Hitherto all is plain, fimple, and eafy to be 



4 underftood ; 



