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on with fuch violence, that it was with the utmofl 

 difficulty fhe was laved from being wrecked in that 

 bay ; and this would infallibly at laft have been the 

 confequence had the ftorm continued fome time lon- 

 ger ; for even when the wind abated, they found it 

 hardly poflible to carry her into the harbour to repair 

 the damages fhe had received. 



Other obfervations relating to thefe northerly 

 winds are, that they always blow when the fures are 

 in their ftrength, in the higher latitudes, and alfo 

 between the parallel of 20*" and that of Panama, it 

 being then winter in thofe climates ; and are alfo 

 found in latitudes beyond 20'' but never nearer to 

 'the equinodial. Another obfervation is, that during 

 the time of the Brifas, between Panama and the equi- 

 Rodtial, thefe winds are never felt in any part of the ^ 

 ppcific Sea, the S. winds alone prevaihng there. 

 Laftly, it is obferved that within thirty or forty 

 leagues of the coaft of Chili, while one part is agitated 

 with fiorms at N. the S. winds frefhen in another. 

 This, however fmgular it may appear, is no more 

 than what was experienced by the three fhips, Efpe- 

 ranza, Helen, and Rofa, w^hich being at the mouth of . 

 the bay of Conception, the latter took her leave of 

 them and bore away, with a frefli gale at S. to Valpa- 

 raifo, whilft the others who fleered for the iflands of 

 Juan Fernandes, Were overtaken in their paiTage by a 

 ftorm at N. 



As in fummer the S. winds generally fliift between 

 the S. S. E. and E. S. E. fo in winter, they continue 

 for feme time between the S. W. and S. confequently 

 there is a neceffity, in the latter feafon, to ftand out 

 to fuch a great diilance from the coall: in queft of 

 them as myil be done, in. fgmmer. 



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