defigned to have made the Experiment in the Str eights -Channel ; 
but both times I paft, the Eafterly wind blew fo hard, that 
there was no putting out the boat with any fafety ; nor in- 
deed at thole times had we any leii'ure for fuch a Ciirtopy ; 
which thofe, who hved at Tanger^ might have trycd with- 
out any difficulty or danger. 
This conjecture, how likely or unlikely foever, will ftand 
or fall according to the certainty of the Ol^jer^mons, which 
ftiall be made there, which I will endeavour to procure in 
order to the further eftabhlhment, or utter overthrow 
of it. . 
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