Africa to thai of America, (which is alfo the Caufe of the con* 
ftant fijbr* Brize blowing id thofe parts.) Buc the Sea thus 
beating on the Coaft of America, is caft back as with an Eddy 
on either hand, and confequently returns from the American 
fliore Eift-ward towards the Coaft of Europe 5 where, the Pa- 
rallel Circles to the Equator being lefs, and confequently the 
Diurnal Motion flower, doth not caft the waters fo ftrongly 
Weft- wards, as between tbzTrofkks, and fo not ftrong enough 
to overcome the Eddy , which it meets with from the other 
Motion, Which gives the Sea a North- Eafterly Motion ( on 
thefe Coafts) as to its ufuall courfe. The Current therefore of 
our Seas being North-Eafterly, we are next to confider, at whac 
times it runs more to the North, and at what more to the £aft B 
When it runs moft Northerly, it runs up the irifk Sea, and fa 
up the Severn 1 When moft Eafterly, it runs itreight up the 
Channel^ and fo to the Coaft of Kent : When between thefe, it 
beats againft Dcvonfbire and Cornwall, and thofe parts. We are, 
therefore to confider (as to the Annuall periods) that the An- 
mail Motion of the Earth in the Zodiaek, and the Diurnal in the 
Equator 9 are not precifelyin the fame dire&ion, bat make an 
Angle of 23-rdeg. at the Mquinoxes • but run, as it were, paral* 
lei at the Solftices : And as they be nearer, or farther from thefe 
points, fois the Inclination varied. Which feveral dire&iens 
of Motion, do caufe the Compound Motion of both to vary 
from the Eaft and Weft more or lefs, according as the Suns 
Pofiticn is farther or nearer the Solftices. And therefore, nea- 
rer to the Equinoxes, this Inclination doth caft the Conftant 
current of our Seas more to the North md South ; and further 
from it, more to the Eaft and Weft. Which is the reafon why 
the Current up the In/ft Sea is nearer to the Equinoxes (at the 
beginning of March and end of September) and up the Chan- 
nel or Narrow Seas, farther from it (st the beginning of Fe- 
bruary and of November .°) and againft the Coafts of Devonfhire 
and thereabout, at fome intermediate time. And thus much 
I thought fit to fignifie upon this pecafion, Dat. Oxferd the 
7. of March An, 166 1 9 
Aaaa Anoher 
