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With the May monfoon fhe ran to Mocha within the Straits* 

 and was there confined by the rummer monfoon blowing 

 up the Arabian Gulf from Suez, and meeting her. Here fhe 

 lay till that monfoon, which in fummer blows northerly 

 from Suez, changed to a fouth-eaft one in October or No- 

 vember, and that very eafily brought her up into the Ela- 

 nitic Gulf, the middle or end of December of the third year. 

 She had no need of more time to complete her voyage, and 

 it was not poflible fhe could do it in lefs. In fhort, fhe 

 changed the monfoon fix times, which is thirty-fix months, 

 or three years exactly; and there is not another combination 

 of monfoons over the globe, as far as I know, capable to 

 effect the fame. The reader will pleafe to confult the map, 

 and keep it before him, which will remove any difficulties 

 he may have. It is for his inftruction this map has been 

 made, not for that of the learned prelate * to whom it is 

 infcribed, much more capable of giving additional lights, 

 than in need of receiving any information I can give, even 

 on this fubject. 



The celebrated Montefquieu conjectures, that Ophir was 

 really on the coaft of Africa ; and the conjecture of that great 

 man merits more attention than the aflertions of ordinary 

 people. He is too fagacious, and too enlightened, either to 

 doubt of the reality of the voyage itfelf, or to feek for Ophir 

 and Tarfhifh in China. Uninformed, however, of the par- 

 ticular direction of the monfoons upon the coaft, firft very 

 flightly fpoken of by Eudoxus, and lately obferved and de- 



lienated 



* Dt Douglas, Bifhop of Carlifk. 



