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prevails to the westward of the Scilly Islands. 
Cape Clear, to Carnsore Point, the Author is less informed, 
in respect of notices from others, than concerning any other 
part of the Coast ; but having visited it repeatedly, and con- 
sidered all the circumstances belonging to it, he is firmly 
persuaded that there is a north-easterly current ; and that it is 
this stream, prolonged from Carnsore Point, that carries ves- 
sels to the eastward of their course, in their way up the Irish 
Sea. (See above, page 194.) 
The same kind of northerly stream, and occasioned, pro- 
bably, by the same cause, is produced on the western coast 
of Scotland ; from whence it turns round the north end of the 
island, and thence southward, along its eastern side, as far as 
Harwich ; where it falls into the strait of Dover, or Channel 
Current, which comes up at the back of the Goodwin Sand. 
The Channel Current has already been mentioned (page 196.) 
and can hardly be questioned, as to its existence, when the 
circumstances already set forth, are considered : such as the 
elevation of the level of the Channel, at times, by two feet or 
more ; the longer continuance of the eastern stream of tide, than 
the western; together with the stream that runs to the north- 
east, from the Strait of Dover, along the whole Coast of 
Flanders, Holland, and Jutland: and which, affording, as is said, 
a help of twenty-five miles, ordinarily, between the Thames 
and the Texel, a run of only 160 miles, or less ; cannot but 
be referred in part, to the Channel, or Dover Current. (For 
more particulars concerning the current at the Strait of Dover, 
&c. the reader is referred to Vol. XVIIth. New Series, of the 
Society’s Transactions.) 
At the mouth of the Baltic sea, the Jutland current is joined 
by the outfall of the former ; which, at all times, receives more 
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