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I now beg permiffion to point out my thoughts 
relpedting the Barbary fide of the ftrait, and the tide 
along it : to illuftrate which, I muft tell likewife what 
happened to myfelf, returning from the weftward to 
Gibraltar. When the rtiip I was on board of was off 
Tangier, about five in the evening, we were joined 
by another, with whom we converted a fmall time 5 
then each took the way he chofe, to get to Gibraltar, 
it being a light Levant, confequently againft us, and 
both fhips near mid-chanel. 
The (hip, that fpoke with us, fiood on her tack to 
the Spanifh fide, where the muft, I think, fall into 
the tide along that fhore ; by the aid of which, fhe 
got to anchor in Gibraltar bay, that night, before 
ten. 
We, on the contrary, from a conceit the mafter 
had, that he was moft lucky on that fide, flood on 
the Barbary tack ; the ftream on which fide, notwith- 
ftanding our labouring and turning to windward, by 
next morning had hoifted us far out into the ocean ; 
next day we got into the ftrait, and drove out again ; 
the fame the fecond and third, by crofting the different 
dreams alternately : fo that it took us four days to do 
what the other did in four hours. 
That the Spaniards are not mafters of the different 
fet of the tides, other than what has been laid about 
Ceuta, I believe; for thefe reafons, viz. their com- 
merce from Cadiz is generally carried on in ltnall 
barks along fhore, round cape Trafalgar to Taiiffa, 
Algazira, and Ceuta on the other fide ; in which na- 
vigation, they confult only what I, for diftinclions 
fake, call Spanifh tide, coming to as often as it fhifts 
againft them; without being much follicitous about 
