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Remarh on The next Day after our Departure from S. Vincent, 

 iheCalcHla- our Account was fomewhat before us ; the next Day, 

 mm. on the contrary, we outftripp'd it ; but the 26th of Fe- 

 bruary, after having taken an Obfervation in 5 Degrees 

 54 Minutes, we found ourfelves 8 Leagues farther to 

 the Southward than we imagin'd, tho' two Days before 

 we had found 9 Degrees 45 Minutes by Obfervation. 

 The Miftake ftill continu'd on the fame fide, with thofe 

 Marks of Currents which are callM Channels of Tides, 

 till towards 9 Degrees South of 5 or 6 Minutes, accord- 

 ing to the Extent of the Day's Run, without reckoning 

 the Correction of the Log-line. From 9 to 13 Degrees 

 there was lefs than from 13 to 17; and the Difference 

 was the more confiderable, becaufe we drew near Land, 

 lb that we found one Day we had failed 25 Leagues, 

 when the Computation made but 16. 

 Oj Currents. I* is plain, that thefe Errors were occafion'd by the 

 Currents which fet us to the Southward: Whether it be 

 diredly to the South, to the S. E. or to the S. W. can- 

 not be pofitively known ; but the moft reafonable Con- 

 jecture, in my Opinion, is, that they muft fet to the S. W. 

 or S. S.W. becaufe they are fo determined by the Pofi- 

 « tion of the Coaft of Brafil. This Experience reduces to 

 a fmall Extent the Remark made by Voogt, who in his 

 Waggoner, printed in Vankeulen, fays, The Current on 

 the Coaft of Brafil, from March till July, fets violently 

 along the Shore to the Northward and from December 

 till March, the South-current ceafes ; where if it be 

 true as to the North-part of that Coaft, it is not regular 

 for the South-part from 10 Degrees of South Latitude, 

 a little out at Sea. 



It may nevertheless be objected againft my Conjecture, 

 that if the Currents did fet S. W. they would carry the 

 Ships that come from the South-Sea nearer to the Coaft 

 of Brafil; but Experience fhews, that from Sibald's 

 Iflands, there is found an Error of 2 or 300 Leagues 

 contrary to the Draught to that Coaft, or the Ifland of 



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