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But if upon the other tack they go away E. S. E, they fall 
into the neigliberhood of the Coaft of Guinexy from which 
there is no departing without running 'Eajleriy^ as far as the 
Ijle of St, Thomas^ which is the conftant prafltife of all the 
Gumy Shipps, and which may feem very ftrang without the 
confideration of the fixth remark, which Ihewsthe reafon of 
it.For being in with the Coaft, the Wind blows generally at 
S.W.and \V.S.V7j with which Winds they cannot go to the 
Northward for the Land, and on the other tack they can lie 
no nearer the Wind thanS. S. E. or Soiah; with thefe 
courles they run ofi the fliore, but in fo doing they alwaies 
find the W^Wx more and more contrary:fb that when near the 
fhorethey could liQ^Soiah^^t a greater diftance they can make 
their w^ay no better than S. E. and afterwards E. S. E^, with 
which courles tliey fetch commonly the Ifle of St. Thomas 
and Cape Li?^^'^, where finiing the Winds to the Eajtivard 
of tlie Smjh^ ch.ey keep them favourable by running away to 
the If e/hvard in. tliQ South Lat, of 3 ^degrees y where the 
S. E. M^/Wj- are perpetual. 
For the fake of tliefe general Winds^ all thole that ufe 
the WeJl'IndianTradey even thole bound to VirgmU^ count 
it their beft courfe to get as foon as they can, to the South- 
wardsy t!iat fo tliey may be certain of a fair and frelh gale to 
runn before it to the leftwards ^ and for the fame reafon 
thole homewards bound from America, endeavour to gain 
the Latitude of degrees^ as foon as polTible, where they 
firft find the Winds begin to be Variable; though themoft 
ordinary Winds m the Northern p^rt of the Jtlamck Ocean 
come from between the6W//and W^/?. 
As to tbofe furious il:ormes called Hurricanes^ which are 
\ as it were peculiar to the Caribbe IJles \ and which fo dread- 
I fully afflia them in tiie month of Augafl^ or not much be- 
I fore or after, they do not fo properly belong to this place, 
I both by reafon of their finall continuance and extent, as 
1 likewiie becaufo they are not Anniverlary, fome years ha- 
ving more than one, and fometimes for ieveral years togea- 
ther 
