Farther observations on the current , &c. iS S 
in the open sea ; and so on, successively, to a certain extent. 
This cause, and not the effect of the Gulf Stream, extended to 
the coasts of Europe, as some have supposed, must surely be 
referred to, as the origin of the Scilly current. 
I. The first case, is that of the Earl Cornwallis East India 
ship. The circumstance occurred on her outward passage : 
she was well provided with time keepers, as most of the India 
ships are. 
On the 12th March, 1791, between the parallels of 43 0 and 
44 0 ; and at 3 0 45' of longitude, west of Cape Finisterre, ( about 
53 leagues), this ship experienced an easterly current, equal 
to 2 6 marine miles. Her position being directly opposite to 
the line of the southern coast of the Bay of Biscay, it is a fair 
conclusion, that the current was occasioned by the cause 
abovementioned ; or as seamen call it, the indraught of the 
Bay : which, it appears, extends to, at least, 53 leagues from 
the shore. And as the rate, in this place, exceeds one mile 
per hour, it may be supposed, that the effect extends to a still 
greater distance. 
It may here be remarked, that the same ship, in coming out 
of the Chops of the Channel, a few days before, was set twenty 
four miles to the westward, 15 to the northward; in the 
course of the 24 hours : that is, 28 miles, in a direction of 
N. W. by W. This may be supposed to be the same stream 
of current, in its course from the Bay towards Scilly. 
II. The second fact, is that of the drift of a bottle, which 
was thrown out of a Danish ship, (I believe, sent on dis- 
covery ) since the publication of the former Paper. 
The bottle was thrown out, in lat. 44 j°, Ion. 12 0 west from 
Greenwich : that is, about 48 miles to the N. E. of the Corn- 
