never experienced a ſimilar current, but on the coaſt of Norway. The froth, and boil, of theſe ſtreams appear, at a very ſmall diſtance, like heavy breakers; we ſounded in ſeveral of them, and found no bottom with two hundred fathoms of line. I alſo tried the rate, and courſe of the ſtream, which was South Weſt by Weſt, two miles and an half an hour. Theſe ſtreams are very partial, and we avoided them, whenever it was in our power. Birds, fiſh, turtles, ſeals, ſun-fiſh, and other marine animals kept conſtantly on the edge of them, and they were often ſeen, to contain large beds of cream-colored blubber, of the ſame kind as thoſe of a red hue, which are obſervable on the coaſt of Peru. The only ſeals we ſaw were in herds fiſhing, or in their paſſage, between the Gallipagoes, and the main. I do not affirm it as a fact, but as we ſaw no ſeals in my route back, and as the few, we killed there, were with young, I am diſpoſed to conjecture, that the herds of them, juſt mentioned, were on their paſſage to whelp.
