3 go Farther observations on the current that often 
however, it is probable he was, although in deep water.* 
Accordingly, one may conceive that his position, at the end of 
the calm, might have been about the meridian of Cape Clear, 
or somewhat to the eastward of it. It must be recollected, 
that in running towards the channel, after the calm, he had 
still to encounter the same adverse current : and that, pos- 
sibly, to within thirty or forty miles of his seeing the Lizard. 
But, whether his position, during the time that he was 
under the influence of the current, be a degree more or less, 
to the eastward, the fact bears the same on the main ques- 
tion ; since a ship, in crossing the stream, wheresoever it may 
be situated, must have been carried out of her reckoning ; and 
thereby placed in danger ; in the event of thick weather hap- 
pening subsequently, and preventing their setting themselves 
right, by an observation of latitude. 
His idea of the eastern edge of the stream, is worth remark- 
ing; as it approaches, in a general view, to the truth. It was, 
that in about the parallel of 49 0 , it approached to the meridian 
of Ushant. And with respect to the direction of the stream, 
as he calls it a northern indraught > he certainly concluded that 
it ran to the northward, into the St. George’s, or Irish chan- 
nel ; brushing the west side of Ushant, and the Land’s End. 
And the effect of the current, on his ship, was no doubt, such 
as to warrant that belief, with those whose knowledge of 
the subject was confined to the mere effect of setting them to 
the northward of Scilly, and into the mouth of the Bristol 
channel. 
The information contained in this statement, does not even 
* Perhaps thirty to thirty-five leagues to the west of Ushant, and in about ioo 
fathoms. 
