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For the Sea fmells differently in the Narrow and Main. And 
as to colour, it is of a Sea-green ( and more fickly ) in the 
Downs , than at Torbay ; and on Plymoutb*coa&. more, than paft 
the Lands*end j and in the Bay ofBifcay^ than in the Long-reach. 
Something perhaps may be imputed to the difference of the 
waves/which are fhort, and make a Copling Sea in the Bay of 
Bifcay( yet we came not within 8 o Leagues of Cape Finis Terra:} 
in the Long-re acb it is along roling wave, but never breaks. 
About Florida :) Virgma,&c New-Engl. it is a great roling wave* 
but breaks. And as the Sea coloureth from green to darkifh , and 
fo to blue i fo in our return it colour’d from blue to dar\, and fo 
to green'. When we were in the Latitude of Barbadoes t and had fai- 
led fo for two daies, and apprehended ourfelves to be within 
70 or So Leagues, I obferved,the Sea was black and thick, not 
tranfparently blue, as before , and the foam againft the ihip- 
fides was turbid, and of another confidence, than before. I 
had never feen the like before, yet was I willing to think the 
Sun not high enough, to give the water its due colour. I at- 
tended the Suns progrefs, but behold, it turn’d Green ; where- 
upon I asked the Mafter, who told me, we were within <£Q 
leagues of Barbadoes , and that the Sea was there foundable, 
whereas before it was not fb. But at Barbadoes, in the anko- 
ring places, it was Blue ; and as we row’d afhore, in the fhal- 
Sow it was Wbitijh: And fo at Jamaica near the fhore it is tranf- 
parently White, but within three yards more, tranfparently Blue. 
As to the Burning of the Sea, I could never obferve fo great 
a Light, as to perceive Fifties in the Sea of the Sterne, though 
2 frequently looked, as well as M. Ligon ; yet was the light 
great,and at fometimes more than other.I fuppofe,fevml fub- 
je& EarthSjCurrents and Winds do vary it. 1 obferv’d, it bur- 
ned more at Deal the night before we fet faile, than ever in the 
Voyage .7 all the water ran off our Oar's , almoft like liquid 
ire 5 the wind was then South-Eaft , and the Sea-men told me, 
that at Eaft and South-winds it burned mofh And it did never 
burn fo much during our ftay at Deal 0 as then, the wind ha- 
ving been alwaies Wefterly . But in the Harbour of Jamaica 
1 obierv d, that it did not burn equally there. As you paffe the 
Current (which thwarts the middle of the Harbour with a rnoti- 
