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that the Waters of the North Sea paffing through the 

 Streights of Magellan m a violent Manner, drive thofe of 

 the Coaft of Peru to the Northward, following the Bearing; 

 of the fame. This laft Argument, form'd at a Time when 

 it had not been yet difcover'd that there was a larger Paf- 

 fage beyond T'ierra del Fuego, might have had fome Re- 

 femblance of Truth, if the fame Current had been ob- 

 fervM along the South Part of Chili but Time, which dif- 

 eovers all Things, has fliewn, that inftead of the North 

 Sea's running into the South Sea, there is Reafon to be- 

 lieve that the South Sea runs into the North Sea, fince at 

 Cape Horn the Currents generally fet Eaft, which feveral 

 Ships have evidently perceiv'd, not only by their Reckning 

 and by the Charts, on which there is no relying, but upon 

 Sight of Land, according to the beft Journals. 



The common Winds, which prevail from E. S.K to 

 S. E. attended us to 3 7 Degrees of Latitude, blowing frefli^ 

 and obliged us to run upon a Stretch 200 Leagues out to 

 Sea, and then they fell to South, S.S. W. and W.S.W. 

 Tohm itj be- Making towards the Land in that Latitude, we perceiv'd 

 Ug near an Alteration in the Waters, being ftill above So Leagues 

 %«nL otlt at g ea# rpj ie obfervation is generally made in thofe 

 ' Parts, even at 8.0 Leagues Diftance from the Land. 



The Regularity of the Winds at E. S, E. and S.. E. and 

 the Breezes at S. W. along the Coaft of Peru y made the Na- 

 vigation fo tedious, before the Method was found of run- 

 ning out to Sea, that Ships were fix or feven Months failing, 

 from Lima to La Conception, becaufe they only advanced 

 by the Help of fome fmall Northern Blafts and the Land- 

 Breezes, during the Night, and fome Part of the Morning, 

 This fliews, that the Want of under ftanding Natural Phi- 

 lofophy among Sailors, is a greater Evil than is imagined 5 

 for, in fliort, I fancy that this Difcovery, which is owing 

 only to Chance, may be made by downright Reafoning. 

 WBytheWinds T ^ con tinual Flux of Air being, from the Eaft in the 

 Zndthi n '"Torrid Zone at Sea, ar?d not on the Land, where thofe 

 TmtiZm* Winds are not re&ular a muft be made good by another Air 



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