prevails to the westward of the Stilly Islands. 189 
It will naturally occur to the reader, that although this 
case gives the northing only ; yet that, in respect of the main 
question, which is, the danger of shipwreck, on Scilly; or of 
being carried into the Bristol Channel ; it is sufficient to pro- 
duce a conviction of the necessity of attending closely to the 
ship's course, when on the point of entering the British 
channel, after, or during, a course of strong westerly, or 
south-west winds. But it would, doubtless, have been more 
satisfactory, had the direction of the stream been known. 
Had that been north-westerly , as I have before supposed, the 
rate of velocity must have been more than a mile and a 
quarter hour ; or approaching to one and a half (the north- 
ing being twenty-three at a mean in the twenty-four hours) : 
whilst that in the Atlas East Indiaman, recorded in a former 
Paper, was about one mile per hour, during four days, con- 
secutively. 
The statement in Mr. Kelly’s book, which is indeed, alto- 
gether, more brief than could be wished, is also defective 
through the want of the distance sailed, from the place of the 
last observation for the latitude, to that, from whence they 
saw the Lizard point. They had their first soundings, the 
day after that observation ; and on the following day, they 
saw the Lizard. His course appears to have been regulated 
with a view of preserving nearly, his parallel of 49 0 16' ; to 
which he had been carried, by the current. It is not likely 
that he sounded to any great depth : perhaps seventy fathoms ; 
which in that parallel might have been about twenty leagues 
south-west from Scilly : and it does not appear that he consi- 
dered himself in soundings, when the calm began ; which 
