. Introduction to the Arctic zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. GUJLPH-STREAM. ingp off Cape Cannaveral are very fteep and uncertain, as the water (hal- lows fo quick, that from forty fathoms it will immediately leffen to fifteen, and from that to four, or lefs j fo diat, without great care, a fhip may be in a few minutes on fhore. It muft be obferved, that, notwithftanding the gulph-ftream in general is faid to begin where foundings end, yet its in- fluence extends feveral leagues within the foundings; and veffels often find a confiderable current fetting to the northward all along the c
. Introduction to the Arctic zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. GUJLPH-STREAM. ingp off Cape Cannaveral are very fteep and uncertain, as the water (hal- lows fo quick, that from forty fathoms it will immediately leffen to fifteen, and from that to four, or lefs j fo diat, without great care, a fhip may be in a few minutes on fhore. It muft be obferved, that, notwithftanding the gulph-ftream in general is faid to begin where foundings end, yet its in- fluence extends feveral leagues within the foundings; and veffels often find a confiderable current fetting to the northward all along the coaft, till they get into eight or ten fathom water, even where the foundings ftretch to twenty leagues from the fhore j but their current is generally augmented or leflened by the prevailing winds, the force of which, however, can but little affeft the grand unfathomable llream. From Cape Cannaveral to Cape Hatter as the foundings begin to widen in the extent of their run from the (hore to the inner edge of the ftream, the diftance being generally near twenty leagues, and the foundings very regular to about feventy fadioms near the edge of the ftream, where no bottom can be afterwards found. Abreaft of Savannah river, the current fets nearly north ; after which, as if from a bay, it ftretches north-eaft to Cape Hatteras j and from thence it fets eaft-north-eaft, till it has loft its force. As Cape Hatteras runs a great way into the fea, the edge cf the ftream is only from five to feven leagues diftant from the cape; and the force and rapidity of the main ftream has fuch influence, within that diftance, over fliips/bound to the fouthward, that in very high foul winds, or in calms, they have frequently been hurried back to the northward, which has often occafioned great dif- appointment both to merchant fliips and to men of war, as was often ex- perienced in the late war. In December 1754, an exceeding good failing fliip, bound from Philadelphia to Charlejlown, got abreaft of Cap
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