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oppofite Tangier, when the wind became unfavour- 
able, and we, by firetching acrols, found the Bar- 
bary tide for us, which carried us out clear of the 
capes ; when the whole fleet, except three, were put 
back to Gibraltar, and lay there three weeks for an- 
other wind : the whole dependence of navigators being 
a flrong Levant wind to pufh them through, without 
reckoning about current. 
How greatly the contrary being attended to would 
benefit commerce, more need not be told, than that 
two fhips lying in Gibraltar bay, bound to London ; 
one, by getting a fmall flart of the other, made her 
paffage, came back, and found her companion flill 
waiting in the bay. 
That this was owing to the firfl having knowledge 
of the different flreams, I don’t fay, but to his alert- 
nefs in catching the firfl of the Levant, whilfl the 
other flaid to finifh his bowl, and pay his reckoning. 
But had he been tolerably acquainted with the 
flreams, I don’t yet fee, why he might not have got 
through, as well as we. 
Permit me to give one obfervation farther ; which, 
though it doth not reach the whole length of the 
gut, it dees in part, viz. tire barks, &c. paffing from 
Ceuta to Spain, every day fhewed us, with what 
facility, in the lafl war, the Spaniards would run 
acrcfs the ftrait, and fetch near Tariffa, or, at worfl, 
a bay between it and Cabrita ; when ’twas as plain, 
that the fell-fame barcalonga, or xebeck, when taken, 
after that Englifh were put on board, could do no- 
thing like it. 
Whence my inference is,, the Spaniard timed the 
tide, the Englifh, not. 
I now 
