llQ^ PRINCIPAL RIVERS. 329 
more frequently met witli about the straits 
^ and near the West India islands, the coasts of 
fC’ to counter-tides, or extraordinary cur- 
ilj (q often dangerous for boats to land. They 
teZ^^aad along the coasts of Jucatan and 
by .1 ’ tunning round into the gulf, return into the great 
straits of Bahama, along the coasts of Florida, 
in the north, tlie course ordained tliem by 
e»t nature. In diis course the waters run 
^ll A “ordinary rapidity, passing between the great 
“Od ijj|^®tican islands in the great deeps, by an almost 
n ^perceptible motion. Against the shores and 
,of 
Viands, which form an archipelago, they 
^■'''gati*^’ sensible and dangerous, interrupting 
L !•> pror°*'’ rendering it scarcely possible to stem 
lo the eastward. 
'■egular currents, there are others, called 
which are obsen'able on the sea coasts 
^ places where these flow, the sea rises in an 
> Cayg*®®'“uer, becoming very furious without any 
A^tv'^ris * without being moved by any wind, 
s'!, siipu open very high, breaking against the 
' *0f^liese ’'lolence, that it £ impossible for vessels to 
chiefly ascribed to the pres- 
’ "Vsf g 'T black clouds which are occasionally seen 
island, or over the sea. 
principal rivers. 
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'' 9 V ’’"at Uieiaiiu i t-i 
COIltiOUill: 
*ifi "P. ana "'.contempt of nature's laws, 
k" 9iiiJ " sain th’ aspirin" mountain height, 
ha. “'■gotfnl of tlinir isfive wewl.t ? 
•'h. the what siibte 
I'm! teflu. ‘onntaiu’s head the 
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sea conveys 
1^9v'''l'at s.'.I’''?*'®* and the land repajs ? 
’oThl?ei"'bis, what subterraneous way.s, 
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^i'at of tlieir native weight ? 
i 1 ’Utriin,'*'"^''*’ what engines iindergronml, 
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" K "‘"St °f curious art are found, 
V "idV'* '•heii^*^*'®'^'^'^''**bng labour play, 
V '<'ep {|| .'Pi'ings the rivers to convey, 
V, In Clr COrresnonHonoo witli the .sea ? 
correspondence with the sea ? 
BI.ACKHOItE. 
'tVs (jn great variety of known benefits a 
me country though which it flows, rt» 
