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^An Account of a fuppofed Current into and out of the 
MtdliQxrm^anytaken from this Journal, is printed 
N. 158. p. 164. of thefe TranfaUiom?^ 
13. We weighed out of Tangier and turned into the 
Strait, though againft the Wind. The diftance between 
Gibraltar Cape, which gives name to the Straits^ and is 
joyned to the Continent of Spain and Seuta a well-built 
and ftrongly fortified Town, lying under the Hill A/ybe^ 
called fo by the Greeks, which the Seamen commonly 
call, as do fome Spanijh Writers , Apes-hill, from the 
great number of Apes which uftd formerly to haunt 
there, (at which places Hercules is feigned to have fet 
up his Pillars) may be about fix Leagues: though both 
Lands lying very high (for we faw the Clouds much be« 
low them) it does not appear in the middle of the Cur- 
rent, out of a tall Ship, fcarce half fo broad. 
14. Little Wind ftirring. 
15-. A great Mift all the Sea over , fo that we could 
fcarce fee thr.ee lengths of the Ship, which began to va- 
ni(h in the Afternoon and then we defcryed the Cape 
oj Malaga at about four Leagues diftance ; and came to 
an Anchor that Night. The City lyes under a high 
Hill, and is the Seat of a Bifliop, who is at this time a 
Natural Son of King Vhilip the Fourth, of the Order of 
St. Dominic, Here the Merchants told us, that it had 
not rained for (even Months together, except a day or 
two for an hour : and that the Algerines, who were 
then breaking with us, had not been able to have fet 
a Fleet to Sea about two years before, if tiey had not 
been furnifhed with Mafts from England ; and that they 
were now in expedation of another Ship laden with the 
fame, notwithftanding the Rupture, which was as good 
as began. I only make a query,Whether Jews or Englijh 
Men were the Fraighters. 
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