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with hail ; but this did not Iaft above half an hour. 
The hail Hones which fell, were partly of an oval 
form, fome round, fome elliptical, others angulated. 
The largeft were bigger than walnuts, the lelfer like 
nutmegs. The outfide was white and clear, w it It a 
kernef in the infide, which was blueiih, and the big- 
nefs of a pea. I found fome of them that weighed 
an ounce; • . . 
The ill of November we could fee the African 
coaft from the mail-head; from thence a bird called 
Emberiza africana came on board us. 
The 2d, we failed by Sicily, with a ftrong North 
wind : juft before this we had feen fome Porpuffes. 
An innumerable flock of Sparrows (Emberiza 
melitenfis) furrounded our veflel on the 3d, and im- 
mediately after we had a hard gale that lafted all 
the following day. 
The 7th, we were in fight of the coaft of Mo* 
rea, when a Levant, i. e. a N. E. wind met us, and 
obliged us to cruize to the nth, without gaining 
the lead. . 
Early on the 1 2 th, we had Candia and Cengo on 
our left. . 
The 13th, we faw Morea to the left, and Milo 
to the right, when we were in hopes foon to end 
our voyage, and the fine weather we now had, made 
fome amends for the difagreeable neceflity of being 
fo long at fea. But our happinefs was at an end 
in the afternoon. The nearer a failor comes to 
the Ihore, the furer he may be of inconftant wea- 
ther. A North wind met us with a moft dreadful 
ftorm, and obliged us to drive about for two days. 
It was lucky for us, that on the 15th we were fo 
near Milo, that we could run in during fuch a fu- 
rious ftorm. The harbour of Milo is one of the 
bell in the Archipelago, furrounded with mountains 
on all fides, of which one hath a ruined caftle and 
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