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four full fent to tell me they were certain they fmelt the 
Pines ; but it afterwards prov'd that we were at that 
time 200 Leagues from the Shoar, fb that I was fatis- 
fied that was therefore meer Fancy. Indeed we thought, 
by the general Accounts of the Sliip, that we had been 
juft on the Coaft, but all were deceived by a Current we 
met with, that at that time fet about South- Eaft, or Eaft 
South-Eaft , which when once becalmed we tried thus : 
We hoifed out a Boat, and took one of the Scuttles that 
cover'd one of the Hatches of the Ship, tying thereto a 
great Weight, and a ftrong long Rope, we let it fink a 
confiderably Depth, and then faftning it to the Boat, it 
ferv'd as an Ancor, that the Boat could not drive « then 
with the Glafs and logg Line we found the Current fet, 
as I fay, Eaftward, at the rate of a Mile and a half an 
hour. This Current is of mifchievous Confequence, 
it does not always run one way, but as it fets fometimes 
as we proved Eafterly, fo does it, as they fay, fet at other 
times Wefterly, whereby many Ships have been loft for 
then the Ships being before their Accounts, they fall in 
with the Land before they are aware. Thus one year 
many Ships were loft on Cape Hattarajfe, and there- 
abouts*. 
Of the Aire. 
la! 
THE Cape called Cape Henry, lies in 3 61 of the Nor- 
thern Latitude. The Air and Temperature of 
fche Seafons is much governd by Winds in Virginia, both 
as to Heat and Cold, Drinefs and Moifture, whofe Vari- 
ations being very notable, I the more lamented the loft 
of my Barometers and Thermometers, for confiderable 
Obfervations might be made thereby, there being often 
great and fuddain Changes. The Nore and Nore-Weft 
are very nitrous and piercing, cold and clear , or elfe 
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