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with an inflance of the like nature in the BaU 

 tick Sound^ as I received it from an able Sea-^ 

 man, who was at the making of the tryaL 



He told me^ that being there in one of the 

 Kifi£s Frigats, they went with their Finnace 

 into Wit middle ftream^ and were carried vi- 

 olently by the Current: : that foon after they 

 fank a bucket with a large Cannon bullet to a 

 certain defth of water^ which gave check to 

 the boats motion, and finking it ftill lower 

 and lower, the boat was driven a-head to 

 wind-ward againft the upper Current: the 

 current aloft, as he added^ not being abov€ 

 4 or 5 fathom deep, and that the lower the 

 bucket was let fall, they found the under* 

 Current the ftronger. I defigncd to have 

 mad^ the Experiment in the Stret^hts-^Channel • 

 but both times I paft, the Eafterly wind blew 

 lb hard, that there was no putting out the 

 boat with any fafety; rnor indeed at thofe 

 times had We any leifiife for fuch a Curiosity j 

 which thofe,, who livM at Tangier^ might 

 have tryjed wit^iout any difficulty or danger* 



This,.conjcc%rev.how likely o^ unlikely fo- 

 ever, will ftand or fall according to the cer* 

 taintyof the Ohfervations^ whih fti^ll be made 

 there, which I will endeavour to procure ia 

 order to the further ellablilhment, or utter 

 overthrow of it 



I3» We weighed out of Tangier and turned 

 into the Strait^ though againft the Wind^ 

 The diftance between Gibraltar C^^t^ which 

 gives name to the Straits^ and is joyned to 

 the Continent of Spain and Centa a well-built 

 and ftrongly fortified Town, lying under the 

 Hill Alybe^ called fo by ihh Greeks^ which 



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