dually drew us out of the inanenee of the ?,b. damp, unwholesome weather we solately experi- enced. Our course was held to the northward of Rowley'z Shoals, which upon passing, we forrod a stron? current setting towards them, at ?he rate of one mile an hour. This indraught /ncreases the danger of navigating near this part, but ! do not recollect having experienced any when we passed them in June, 1515. The oarrent, therefore, that we felt? may be only of temporary duration, and probably caused by the ?ariable state of the wind. Between the PAth of February and the 8rd of reb. March we had light and variable winds from M?s. all dir.ections, but, being more frequent from the eastward than from any other point of the com- pass, I became reconciled to the step I had ?ken of leaving the coast, since .it would not have been possible to have reached Port George the Fourth The thermometer now ranged between 87 �nd 89% and the wether was consequently ex- tremely oppressive and sultry. On the $rd at s-it.
- noon we were in latitude 18 � 18", and lon-
gitude 111 �15", when a breeze sprang up of the trade, which blew steadily between S.S.F,.
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