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To Brazil

24. Wind today as fair as we could wish ship layd up so well that it renewd our hopes of touching at the Island

about noon today we experiencd what the Seamen call a white squall, that is a gust of wind which came upon us quite unawares, unattended with a cloud as squalls in general are & therefore took us quite unprepard; it was however very slight so no ill consequence ensued except Mr Parkinson & his potts going to leward, which diverted us more than it hurt him.

25. This morn about 8 O'Clock crossd the AEquinoctial line in about 33 degrees West Longitude from Greenwich, at the rate of four knotts which our seamen said was an uncommonly good breeze, the Thermometer standing at 29. (The Thermometers used in this voyage are two of Mr Birds making after Farenheights scale, which seldom differ above a degree from each other
 

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