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io the Long-reach . Something perhaps may be imputed to the diffe- 
rence of the waves, which are (hort, and make a Copling Sea in the 
Bay otBifcay (yet we came not within 8© Leagues oiCape Fink Ter - 
: ) in the Long-re mb it is a long rolling wave, but never breaks. 
About Florida , Virginia , and New-Englandi t is a great rolling wave, 
but breaks. And as the Sea coioureth from green to darkifh , and fo to 
blue 5 fo in our return it colour’d from blue to dark and fo to green* 
When we were in the Latitude of Barbadoes , and had failed fofor 
two daies,and apprehended our felves to be within 70 or 80 Leagues, 
lobferved the Sea was black and thick, not tranfparently blue, as 
before, and the foam againft the Ship-fides was turbid, and of ano- 
ther confidence, than before. I had never feenthe like before, yet 
was I willing to think the Sun not high enough, to give the water its 
due colour. I attended the Suns progrefs, but behold, it turn’d Greeny 
whereupon I asked the Matter, who told me, we were within 60 
leagues of Barbadoes, and that the Sea was there foundable, whereas 
before it was not fo. But at Barbadoes in the anchoring places, it was 
Blue % and as we row’d afhore, in the fhallow it was Whitifb : And 
fo at Jamaica near the fhore it is tranfparently White, but within 
three yards more, tranfparendy Blue . 
As to the Burning of the Sea , I could never obferve fo great a Light, 
as to perceive Fifhes in the Sea of the Stern, though { frequently 
looked, as well as M. Ligon ; yet was the light great, and at fome- 
times more than other. I fuppofe feveral fubjedf Earths, Currents, 
and Winds do vary it. I obferv’d, it burned more at Deal the night 
before we fet fail, than ever in the Voyage : all the water ran off 
our Oars, almoft like liquid fire , the wind was then South- Eafk, and 
the Sea-men told me, that at Baft and South- winds it burned moff. 
And it did never burn fo much during our ftay at Deaf as then, the 
wind having been alwaies Wefterly. ’But in the Harbour of Jamaica 
I obferv’d, that it did not burn equally there. As you pafs the Current 
(which thwarts the middle of the Harbour with a motion, different 
from the water on both fides) the water fcarce fcems white at the 
ftroak of an Oar, 
I (hall not trouble you with an account, how two contrary Winds 
polfe each other, and make a Calm in the miuft, fhips at a diftance 
failing with contrary gales at the fame time. 
It is obfervable, that in the Indies fuch places, as have any high 
Mountains,havealfoevery night a Wind, that blows from the Land, 
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