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To Brasil

Novr.

5. The thermometer kept still gradualy falling as the wind got more to the northward which appears odd as the North wind should now be the warm wind we were not yet however enough to the Southward to find much alteration Wind  today this morn was North-east, at noon North by west between this place & mid channel it has changd from South by East. The Trade being to the Northward upon this coast has been observd long ago tho I question whether our navigators are sufficiently apprisd of it. Piso in his Natural history of the Brasils says that the winds along shore are constantly to the Northward from October to March & to the southward from March to October. Dampier also who certainly had as much experience as most men says the same thing advising ships
 

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