h the Lirtg-redch. Something perhaps may be imputed to the difife- 
rence of the waves, which are Oiort, and make a Copling Sea in the 
Bay ofBifcay fyet we came not within 80 Leagues oiCape Fwis Ter- 
• ) in the Long-tea h it is a long rolling wave^ but never breaks. 
About Florida, Virginia^ and New- Eff gland it is a great rolling wave, 
but breaks. And as the Sea coioureth from gree/^ to darkifh^ and (o to 
l^lue I (o in cur return it colour' d from Hue to dark^ and fo to green. 
When we were in the Latitude of Barbadees^ and had failrd fofor 
two daiesj and apprehended our feUxs to be within 70 or 80 Leagues, 
lobferved the Sea was black and thick, not tranfparently blue, as 
before, and the foam againft the Ship-fides was turbid, and of ano- 
ther confidence, than before. I had never fecn the like before, yet 
was 1 willing to think the Sun not high enough, to give the water its 
due colour. I attended the Suns progrefs, but behold^ it turn'd Green-^ 
whereupon 1 asked the Mafter, who told me, we were within 60 
leagues of and that the Sea was there foundable, whereas 
before-it was not fo. But at Barbaaoes in the anchoring pfaces, it was 
Blue 5 and as we rovv'd afhore, in the fhallovv it was Whitijh : And 
fo at , Jamaica near the fiiore it is tranfparently WhiiCy but withio 
three yards more, tranfparently Blue. 
As to the Burning of the Sea\ could never obfcrvc fo g^eat a Lighr, 
as to perceive Filhes in the Sea of the Stern, though I frequently 
looked, as well as M. Ligor] ; yet was the light great, and at fome- " 
times more than other. 1 fuppofe feveral fubjed Earths, Currents,, 
and Winds do vary it. I obferv'd, it burned more SLt Deal the night 
before we fet fail, than ever in the Voyage; all the water ran off 
our Oars, almoft like liquid fire ; the wind was then South Ea ft ^ and 
the Sea-men told me, that at Ea[i and 5tJ/^f^.winds it burned moft. 
And it did never burn fo much during- our ftay at J^eal^ as then,' the 
wind having been alwaies Weflerlj. But in the Barbour of ^arnaica 
lobfe'rv'd, that it did not burn equally there. As you pafs t\\Q Curfc»t_ 
(which thwarts the middle of the Harbour with amotion, different;; 
from the water on both fides) the water fcarce feems whiie at the ^ 
ftroak ofan 
I fhall not trouble you with an account, how two contrary Winds 
poife each other, and make a Calm in the midft, (hips at a diftance 
failing with contrary gales at the fame time. 
It is obfervable, that in the Indies fuch places, as have any high 
Mountains, have alfo every night aWind^ that blows firom the Land, 
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