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chant Ships, i3 Sail that were ordered to carry over 
the Horfe, not being able to get out at the fame time 
from another Port, where they lay Wind-bound. He 
fays that he arrived about the Fourth hour of the Day, 
between Nine and Ten in the Morning, on the 
Coaft of Britain, where he found the Enemy drawn up 
on the Cliffs 'ready to repel him, which place he thus 
defcribes. Loci h£c erat natura, adeo montilus angujtis 
mare continehater nt ex locis fuperionbus in tittus telum ad- 
jtci pajjit, by whkh the Cliffs of Dover and the South 
Foreland, are juftly defcribed, and could be no other 
Land, being he fays in the yh. Book of his Commen- 
taries, in BritanniamtrajeUum effe cognoverat circiter mi Ili- 
um paffuum triginta acontinenti, the Cliffs of the North- 
Foreland being at a much greater diftance. Here he fays 
he came to an Anchor, and ftaid till the yth. hour, or 
till about between Three and Four in the Afternoon, 
expecting till his whole Fleet was come up 5 and in the 
mean time called a Council of War, and advertifed his 
Officers, after what manner they v/ere to make their 
Defcenr, particularly in relation to theSuffof the Sea, 
whofe motion he calls celerem atq-> infiabilem, quick and 
uneven. Then, viz, about Three in the Afternoon he 
weighed Anchor, and having gotten the Wind and Tide 
with him, he Sailed about Eight Miles from the firft place, 
and Anchor'd againfl an open and plain Shore. 
2. Here he made his Defcent, and having told us the 
oppofition that was made r and the means he ufed to 
get on fhore, he comes to fay, that after he had been 
Four Dajs in Britain, the ?8 Ships with his Horfe put 
to Sea, and were come in fight of his Camp, when a 
fudden Tempeft arofe , with contrary Wind, fo that 
fome of the Ships put bxok again, others were driven 
to the Weftwards, not without great danger, and com- 
ing to Anchor, they found they could not ride it out : 
fo when Night came on, they put off to Sea and return- 
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