the South- Sea. 41 



Streight le Maire, as I have mention'd it before, and 35 

 Leagues farther Eaft that! thofe of Pieter Gogs, our Error 

 was but of about 50 Leagues. It is certain, as has been 

 faid, that the Night we came out of that Streight, we fell 

 off confiderably to the Eaftward, not only becaufe the next 

 Day we had no Sight of Land, but alfo becaufe we found 

 ourfelves eight Minutes more to the North, upon a Com- 

 putation of ten or twelve Leagues. Two Days after, in 

 about 57 Degrees, 26 Minutes Latitude, we, on the other 

 hand, found ourfelves 22 Minutes more South, upon a 

 Run of 70 Leagues. Afterwards, we were not fenfible 

 of the Currents for a long Time; for, after having been 

 feven Days without an Obfervation, almoft continually in 

 foul Weather, tacking, lying-by, and running 80 greater 

 Leagues in Longitude, we in 59 Degrees, 20 Minutes, 

 found no Difference ; and fcarce any, three Days after, in 

 5 5 Degrees, 40 Minutes : But not having feen the Sun in 

 eight Days, we found ourfelves 27 Minutes more to the 

 Southward than our Computation. This was in 53 De- 

 grees, 6 Minutes Latitude, and perhaps 84, or 82 of 

 Longitude. 



According to this Error and the former, there feems to Conjeftnre 

 be Reafon to conje&ure, that there are two formal Cur- hm Currents. 

 rents, the one along the South-Sea, and the other along 

 the North-Sea. This laft muft fet from S. Katharine to 

 Tierra del Fuego, S. S. W. and from the Streight S. E. and 

 E.S.E. being determined to that Coaft by the Coaft of the 

 Patagons, afterwards by the new Land of Sibald's Iflands, 

 and that of Tierra delFuego and Staten-Land. That in the 

 South-Sea muft pretty near follow the Bearing of the Land, 

 from Cape Pillars to Cape Horn^ and from thence turn off 

 Eafland E.N.E. along Bamevelfs Iflands and Staten-Land, 

 as Experience has fhew'd us. It alfo follows, that there 

 muft be fome little Current drawn by that of the Land's 

 End, in the South Part of CM/, which likewife is agreeable 

 to Experience ; for when we made Land 3 we were ftill 20 

 Minutes South of our Computation. 



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