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always this Rule, that on the Kfrkm fide they are more 
S/^^^/W^, on the Br^////^^ more £^^^^ to become al- 
moft due E^ijl, the httle defleftion they have being ftill 
to the SofithwArds. In this part of the. Ocean it has been my 
fortune to pafs a full year^in an employment that obHged me 
to regard more than ordinary the Weather, and I found the 
Winds conftantly about tiie ^outh-Eafi^ the moft ufual point 
S E bEj when it was E/zfi^rly it generally blew hard, and 
was gloomy, dark, and fometimes rainy weather ; if it came 
to the Southwards it was generally Serene, and a frnall gale 
next to a Calme, but this not very common. But I never 
faw it to the Wefiwards of the Souths or Northwards of the 
Eafi. 
5. That the feafbn of the Year has fbme Cnall effefl: on 
thcib Trade Wmds, for that when the the Sun is confidera- 
ble to the A^(?r/i&3?W^ of the Equator^ thQ South^Eafi Winds^- 
elpecially in the flraight of this Ocean ( if I may fb call it ) 
between Bra^ile and the Coaft of Guinea^ do vary a point 
or two to the Sotithwardsy and the North-Eafi become more 
Eafierly; and on the contrary when the Sun is towards the 
Tropick of vfy the Somh-Eafierly Winds become more Eafier- 
ly ^ and the North-eafierly Wmds on this fide the Line vere 
more to the Northwards. 
6. That as there is no general Rule that admits not of 
fome exception, fo there is in this Ocean a traflt of Sea 
wherein the Southerly and S. Wefi Winds are perpetual, ^uiz, 
all along the Coaft of Guinea for above 5C0. Leagues to- 
gether, from Sierra Leona to the l(le of St. Thomas \ for the 
Somh-Eafi Trade- Wind having pafled the Line^ and approa- 
ching the Coaft of Guinea within 80 or 10:^ L^/^g/^^'i- inclines 
towards the fhore, and becomes S. S. E, and by degrees, as 
you come nearer, it vears about to Souths S. S. Wefi^ and 
in With the land SoMtL-M^e/l-^ and fometimes JVefi South- 
Wefi\ which variation is better exprefled in the Mapp 
hereto annexed, than it can well be in words. Theleare the 
Winds, which are obferved on this coaft when it blows _ 
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