Mifcellanea Curiofa. 7 1 



7. That thefe contrary Winds do not (Kift all 

 at once, but in fome places the time of the Change 

 is attended with Calms, in others with variable 

 Winds 5 and it is particularly remarkable, that 

 the end of the Wefterly Monfoon on the Coaft 

 of Coromandel, and the two laft Months of the 

 Southerly Monfoon in the Seas of China, are very 

 fubjecl: to be tempeftuous The violence of thefe 

 Storms is fiich, that they (eem to be of the Na- 

 ture of the Weft-India Hurricanes, and render the 

 Navigation of thefe parts very uniafe about that 

 time of the Year. Thefe Tempefts are by our 

 Seamen ufually termed, The breaking up of the 

 Monfoons* 



By reafon of the fhifting of thefe Winds, all 

 thofe that fail in thefe Seas, are oblig'd to ob- 

 ferve the Seafbns proper for their Voyages, and 

 fo doing they fail not of a fair Wind and fpeedy 

 Paflage , but if fobe they chance to out-ftay their 

 time, till the contrary Monfoon fets in, as it fre- 

 quently happens, they are fore'd to give over the 

 hopes of accomplifhing their intended Voyages, 

 and either return to the Port from whence they 

 came, or elfe put in tpjfome other Habour, there 

 to (pend the time till tire Winds (hall come fa- 

 vourable. 



III. The third Ocean call'd Mare Pacificum, 

 whofe Extent is equal to that of the other two 

 (it being from the Weft Coaft of America to the 

 .Philippine l{\and$, not lefs* than lyo Degrees of 

 Longitude) is that which is leaft known to our 

 own or the Neighbour Nations ; that Naviga- 

 tion that there is on it, is by the Spaniards, who 

 go Yearly from the Coaft of New Spain to the 

 Manilha s % but that but by one beaten track ; fo 

 that I cannot be fb particular here as in the 

 F 4 other 



