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 , a wooden Bridge jut without the Town, being aid not to deviate the leat Part of a Minute, either to the Southward or Northward; and notwithtanding this warm Scituation, and continual vertical Suns, the Ilanders are very healthy, imputed by thoe who are dipoed to be merry, in a great Meaure to the Want of even o much as one Surgeon or Phyician amongt them.

Ile Del Principe, the next in Magnitude, a pleaant and delightful Spot to the grave, and thoughtfull Dipoition of the Portuguee, an Improvement of Country Retirement, in that, this may be a happy and uninterrupted Retreat from the whole World.

I hall divide what I have to ay on this Iland, into Obervations made on our Approach to it, on the Seas round it, the Harbour, Produce of the Iland and Seaons, Way of Living among the Inhabitants, ome Cutom of the Negroes, with uch proper Deductions on each as may illutrate the Decription, and inform the Reader.

We were bound hither from Whydah, at the latter Part of the Month July, when the Rains are over, and the Winds hang altogether S. W. (as they do before the Rains, S. E.) yet with this Wind (when at Sea) we found the Ship gained unexpectedly o far to the Southward, (i. e. Windward,) that we could with eae have weathered any of the Ilands, and this eems next to impoible hould be, if the Currents, which were trong to Leeward, in the Road of Whydah, had extended in like Manner cros the Bite of Benin: No, it mut then have been very difficult to have weathered even Cape Formoa: On this Occaion, I hall farther expatiate upon the Currents on the whole Coat of Guiney.

The Southern Coat of Africa runs in a Line of Latitude, the Northern on an Eatern Line, but both trait, with the fewet Inlets, Gulphs or Bays,