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 never experienced a imilar current, but on the coat of Norway. The froth, and boil, of thee treams appear, at a very mall ditance, like heavy breakers; we ounded in everal of them, and found no bottom with two hundred fathoms of line. I alo tried the rate, and coure of the tream, which was South Wet by Wet, two miles and an half an hour. Thee treams are very partial, and we avoided them, whenever it was in our power. Birds, fih, turtles, eals, un-fih, and other marine animals kept contantly on the edge of them, and they were often een, to contain large beds of cream-colored blubber, of the ame kind as thoe of a red hue, which are obervable on the coat of Peru. The only eals we aw were in herds fihing, or in their paage, between the Gallipagoes, and the main. I do not affirm it as a fact, but as we aw no eals in my route back, and as the few, we killed there, were with young, I am dipoed to conjecture, that the herds of them, jut mentioned, were on their paage to whelp.