Page:Voyage in search of La Perouse, volume 1 (Stockdale).djvu/96

86 number of worms, that ought to be claed among the genus faciola of Linnæus, though their inferior extremity, which is almot cylindrical, has a very ditinguihable bulb. They are about four lines in length, and terminate in a tube which compoes about half their dimenions.

The winds from the outh and outh-eat continued to blow with uch obtinacy, that we were not able to cros the Line till in the night of the 28th, about eleven o'clock, in 26° E. long. though our deign had been to cros it about eight or ten degrees farther eatward.

Thee outh and outh-eat winds are not common in thee latitudes at this time of the year; for the un being already coniderably advanced in the Tropic of Capricorn, the regular winds generally veer round to the eat. The calms, in conequence of which we had got every day 6 or 8′ further northward, and the gales from the outh and outh-eat, were the caues of our being o long detained by thee winds.

Near as we were to the Equator, the thermometer, as oberved for the lat eight days, had not tood higher than 21 or 22°. It was a matter of urprie to us, that being o near the Line, the thermometer did not indicate a higher degree of heat; but beides general caues, uch as the aborption of the rays of the un by the water of the