parts very unfafe about that time of the Year. Thefe 
Tenipelts are by our Seamen ufually termed, The hreakmg 
up of the Monjoons, 
By r^afon of the flhifting of thefe Winds, all thofe that 
lail in thefe Seas, are obliged to obferve the feafons proper 
for their Yoiages, and 16 doing they tail not of a fau' wnid 
and Ipeedy paflage; but if lb be they chance to out-ftay their 
tiaie, till the contrary Monjoon let in, as it frequently hap- 
pens, they are forced to giv^e over tne hopes of accom- 
plilhing their intended Voiages, and either return to the 
pore from whence they came, or elce pur in to fome other 
Harbour, there to fpend the time tiU the Wmds lha.il come 
favourable. 
III. The third Ocean called Mare Pacificum, whole extent 
is equal to that of the other two, ( it being from the Weft 
Coaft of America to the Philippne Hands, not jefi than ; 15 0 
degrees of Longitude ) is that which is leaft known to pur 
own or the neighbour Nations; that Navigation that there 
is on it, is by the Sfmyards who go yearly from the Coaft of 
new Spain to the Manilhas^m. that but by one beaten track; 
lb that I cannot be fb particular here as in the other two. 
What the v^^^;?/^ Authors fay of the Winds they fin i in 
their Courfes, and what is coafr jied by the old Accounts 
of Dra':e and Candijhy and fmce by Schooun^ who filled tha 
whole breaith of this Sea in the Southern Latitude of i > or 
1 6 degreeb, is, that there is a great conformity bet ween the 
Winds of this S ja, and thole of tue Atlmtick and ^ft(Bfik^\ 
thac is to lay, that to the Northwards of the Eqmtor^ the 
predominant Wind is between im tafi md Nort :^Eait^. and 
to the S utjwards thereof tliere is a conftant fteady galevbe* 
t ween the and So it j-E -Jly and; fhap on, both j fides Liie| 
Li^e \s/lth fb much comfanc. , thatjt^iey fcaree ever need to 
attend tlie Sails, and llrength, tlat it is rave to :^feil of 
crofling this vail Ocean m ten weeks tirae,.'wiiicii is aoout 
1 3 . miics fer dtem \ beiides ^tis laid tr.ac Scormes and Teni- 
pefts are never known in tlielc part^ : Su. tiiat i^ere is the vq? 
