34° Dr. bl ag den on the Heat of 
ward: tiie temperature of the fea continued nearly at 65*. 
Next clay, the 30th, our latitude at neon was 35 0 44', only 
18 miles farther to the fouthward, though in the opinion of 
the leamen aboard, as well as my own, it had blown at lead: 
as hard on this as any of the preceding days, and we had not been 
able to carry more fail ; confequently it may be concluded, that 
home current had fet the drip 20 miles to the northward. To 
know whether this was the Gulf-dream, let us confult the 
thermometer. At half after nine in the forenoon of this day 
the heat of this water was 76°, no lets than eleven degrees 
above the temperature of the fea before we came into the 
current ! 
Towards evening the wind fell, and we flood N.W. by N. 
clofe-hauled. As the fea dill ran very high, and the drip fcarcely 
went above two knots an hour, we did not make lefs than three 
points of lee-way on this tack ; the courfe we made good, 
therefore was W.N.W. which, on the diflance run by noon 
next day, gave us about fixteen miles of northing ; but that 
day, the id of Odlober, our latitude was 36° 22', 38 miles 
farther to the north than we had been the day before ; the dif- 
ference, 22 miles, mud be attributed to the Gulf- dream. This, 
however, is only part of the effect which the current would 
have produced upon the blip if we had continued in it the 
whole four and twenty hours ; for, though we were dill in the 
dream at five in the afternoon of the 30th, as appeared by the 
heat of the water being then above 75 0 , and at eight in the 
evening the heat being dill 74% yet by feven next morning we 
were certainly got clear of it, the heat of the fea being then 
reduced to its former dandard of 6 5 0 . On this occadon, there- 
fore, we did not crofs the dream 3 but having fallen-in with it 
obliquely 
