. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. 3 .« Sea between Europe and America. # like parcels of combed wool, or fo many fkains of yarn, they faid forebode a ftorm. Thefe ftnped douds ran north-weft and fout
. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. 3 .« Sea between Europe and America. # like parcels of combed wool, or fo many fkains of yarn, they faid forebode a ftorm. Thefe ftnped douds ran north-weft and fouth-eaft. in the d>rea,on of the wind we then had. Towards the wind abated and we had a perfedt cahij. which IS a fign of a change of wind. ^ug 25th and 26th. A WEST wind fprune up and grew ftronger and ftronger, fo that at laft the waves wafhed our deck, wdF K^'u" ^'^ 'H' '"°?'"S ^^ 8°' ^ better wind, which went through various points of the compafs and brought on a ftorm from north-eaft. towards night. ' Our captain told me an obfervation founded on long experience, -viz. that though the winds changed frequently in the ^/to//ocean, ^Ae! ciaJly in fummer time, the moft frequent how- ever was the weftern ; and this accounts for the pallage from America to Europe commonly be- ing ftorter, than that from Europe to America. Befides this, the winds in the Atlantic during ^mmer are frequently partial, fo that a ftorm may rage on one part of it, and within a few miles of the place little or no ftorm at all may be felt. In winter the winds are more conftant. exteniive and violent -, fo that the fame wind reigns on the greater part of the ocean for a good While, and caufes greater waves than in fum- mer. fnrf T" ^^'i- ^' \ ^^^ "^^^"^^^ the night be- fore W ftrong flaflies of lightening without 2 fubfequent ckp of thunder. I enquired of our captain^ whether he could aflign any reafons lor It. He told me thefe phcenomenn «,.,-. B pretty K\^h -I .?
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