( 693 ) 
but the general Wind (for ought that I fee) is not Co 
unconftant | Vefli:lsthat go to Windward are htlp'd by 
them, when they are not over ftrong, for they are op- 
poftte to the Sea Brize, and they can ftcer by them a 
regular Courft which fure they could not do, if they 
were very irregular. They never fail to give warning 
before hand, though fometimes after that warning they 
do not follow ; there is a very black Cloud appears afar, 
in which if there be a kind of white Spot, the Wjod will 
be moft, if not the Rain ; this the Sailors fay. Sometimes 
there is that Mark, fometimes not, though I doubt the 
Predidion from it is not very certain; as neither are 
any perhaps of that kind. 
An Account of the Weather at Cape Corfe in 
Guiney, from Nov. 24. i6%6. to the fame 
Day^ 1687. 
Lat.N. 4< 49". Nov, 16S6. 
X4. A N 25. Clear and hot. 
f\ i6. About 2. a. m. a Storm of Rain with 
Thunder for \ Hour. 
27. At the fame Hour, Rain which lafted fomewhat 
longer. 
28. About 5-. a, m, fome Rain, afterward Mifty, 
about 10 ext ream Hot. 
29. About z. a.m, a great Storm of Rain, flacking 
often, but renewing again, it lafted about an Hour the 
Day after clear. 
December, 1686. 
Thence to Dec. 7, dear ; then cloudy in the Morn- 
ing ; between 12. and i. />. m. a Shower lafting about 
I Hour. Thence clear and hot. 
K k k kfc 10. A 
