Passage to required* from thence; however, few accurate accounts
• islands, had hitherto been published of the navigation, either.
~ through that track, or tfrom, thence to the Chu-lan
islands.
! , The mountain of Tien-tcha,. - or of |iewnG|b®|tar?
^ i ^ i ^ j ^ tthe;harbour of Turonypreyented th^ships,
lying under1 it, from feeling much of the effe^of^the
jia hfeele. They waited, therefore, on Stextoyof their
dfeparturej for the land wind, which-atirays>risesitheEO
in the afternoon. Its direction was from A©®th! by. east
toi isoutK^south^east; and it drove them: above ibnerhuni
dred miles from Turon in thecourseiof the: first twenty^
four hours.. -In ?that'Spaced it- was found that a • current
had* runam« direction north sixty-shven degreestwest
'about th irty' mity^or one mile' and a quarter in dvfery
hour. Such a curreubthere, ^at'-this tim)e,i was naturally
to>b^^jp®cted. The tide' flows from the eastwhrd»4:©4
wards the! shores of Cochin-china between the TaFaoelsf
mentioned: in the last chapter,I anda^t^jmisland called
Hai-nan-; therefore as the water, returnin|tir©m;ihase
shores,' is too weak to counteract the constant eastern tide|
it is forced along -the? feiward trendingrcoast; towards the
noithward, into; the gulf of Tung*-quin; from-whence
tliereds no outlet, except a narrow passage formed.be*
twtefen Hai-nan and a long ifeekfef'land jetting from the
Coritinent of China; Thisi passage?feeing directly open
to thfe east, the water brought; by the constant eastern
tiifl^ ''ihnl£ifeemaaadhtiito a gulf;1 and accumulating in n w *
y^st quantities, occasions very high tides, and that n> istois,
rpgufarhy m>wh.ich.Sir Isaac Newton has adyerted'in his
works.
udlm-’the?(second »dayfe^comrse theraf.appealed: to, be a
s M a l l BggjKgjgjfo aboth/|e^ht, miles north-east,
cansedi probably, ^ t b e reflux of the sea from the east-
ernrcoas^^)bHai-nan,t,tq’which the ships vpfe opposite
On the (thir4=?dajy, the .nineteenth1 of June, saJ current
set i from-f(fef4q§istwcard thirteen -.ipilgs, ;whiph might be
produced by.-the- influx ^ojhthehfijdbithrongfe.themeigh'»
bouring straits^of Hai-nan,’ across the mouth of which
th&«squa(fe©hpassed thatrdap- ■
On the twentieth- bfjune/ were seen a higb peaked |
isl and, | called, by Europeans th%-.Orandi Ladrojae, ;and
another -sm-eare it», whose summit isjj more level i and
somewhat f-owjer than1 the , former; and the same-flay
brought; also;the main land.pbChioa into sight, bearing
north-north.-east.K-Tbo.' it was at $U£h aida$ta®e©tas to
present; distinguishing more than , that| sthg iand was
highland ,of an unequal^siujao&ihavi.ng ptherwis;ejnpr
thingpeouliarpili« its appearance-; yet;eYen this distant
prospect,left a cheerful impressiomt#n stfee mind; as i f
a point wme gained rtbat >m,ade' an m-a in tfee-histoj?y of
the,yoyage.
Ona^dwenty-j&sfrof JunoAbOi'sh#? eamfe to<aiieb«jr
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