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true,-but there are frequent Calms, Violent fuddainGufts 
called Tcmado^sfiom all points of the compas, and fometimes 
unwhoKbme foggy Kxjierly Winds called HermiUAhy t)^ 
. Natives, which to often infeft th e Navigation of thcfe parts. 
7. That to the Nortlmards of the Line, between 4 and 
10 degrees of Latitude, and between the Meridians of C^://^ 
Virde^ and of the ^ajlermcfi IJlmds that bear that name,there 
is a traO: of Sea wherein it were improper to fay there is any 
Trade Wind, or yet a Variable ; for it ieen^ condemned to 
perpetual Calms,attended with terrible Tiiunder and Light- 
ning, and Rains lb frequent, that our Navigators trom 
thence call this part of the Sea the Kaim : the little Winds 
that are, be only fbme fuddain uncertain Guih, of very lit- 
tle continuance and lefs extent ; fo that fometimes each 
hour you fhall have a difierent Gale, which dies away into 
a- Calme before another fucceed; and in a fleet ofSriippsin 
fight of one another, each flaall have the Wind from a ieve- 
ral point of the Compafs ; with thele weak Briz.es S: lipps are 
obliged to make the beft of their way to the SoraLivard 
through the aforefaid fix degrees, wherein 'tis reported fome 
have been detained whole months for wane of W ind. 
From the three lafl: obfervables is fhewn the reafon of 
two notable occurrents in the Eafirlndia and Gmnea Navi- 
gations. The one is, why notvvithftandmg the narroweft 
part of the Sea hQtwcea Guinea and Brafele be about 
5 : o leagues over, yet Shipps bound to the Somjward fome^ 
times, efpecially in the hionths of J^^lj and J pfij find a 
great difficulty to pais it. This happens becaufe of the 
South-eajl Winds^ at that time of the year commonly extend- 
ing fome degrees beyond the ordinary limit o^^xg^ees North 
Lat- and withall theycom e fo much ^outherlj^s^ to be fome- 
times ^oHth^ fometimes a point or two to the Wefl \ there 
remains then only to plie to Wind-ward, and if on the 
one fi ethey ftandaway W. S. W. they gain the Windilill 
nior^ and more ^aflerly^ but there is danger of not weather- 
the JSr-!!/?/^;^ fhore, or at leafl: the fhoals upon that Coafl:. 
