ig<2 Farther observations on the current that often 
course, could it be known, when to expect it. But I have also 
heard it remarked by sea officers, as long ago as I can re- 
member, that “ it was unaccountable, what should occasion 
“ their running down so much distance, in coming in with the 
“ land, from the westward/’ I never heard, however, that 
there was any suspicion of a current, setting to the westward. 
The idea of a northern indraught into St. George’s Channel, 
(but which applies equally to the current west of Scilly) is 
clearly set forth, in a publication by Captain Joseph Mead, in 
175 7 ; but which only came to my knowledge very iatelv, 
by the favour of Mr. Purdy ; to whom I stand indebted, also, 
for the knowledge of the important fact of the set of forty-six 
miles, during the calm, in the Chops of the Channel. 
Captain Mead first relates the case of the ship Hope of 
Liverpool, bound from the coast of Guinea, to that port, in 
November 1735. (Preface, page iii. ) 
“ Having had a good observation, by which they found 
“ they had the Irish Channel open, the wind continued to 
“ blow strong from between the south and west, but mostly 
“ from the former. Having no other observation £of lati- 
“ tude[] for six days, in which time, they carried sail, con- 
“ stantly, they by reckoning expected to fall in with Cape 
“ Clear ; but in the following night, they fell in with the 
“ Blasquets.” These islands and rocks are situated in lat. 
52 0 10' ; or about forty-eight miles to the north, and one de- 
gree of longitude to the westward of Cape Clear. 
Again (page 10) he says, that the Bristol merchant ships, 
which fall in with Cape Clear, on their homeward passage 
[[from the West Indies, &e.J shape their course from thence, 
with a large wind, to ihe high land, near Fadstow; which is 
