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'The 12 in the morning we weied and set sayle into the Sea due south through a small streit but without danger' possibly the very gap in which the Rhone's wreck now lies 'and then stode west and by north for S. Juan de Puerto Rico. This northerly course is, plainly, the most advantageous for a homeward-bound ship, as it strikes the Gulf Stream soonest, and keeps in it longest.
These rivers, though joined in one bed, for hundreds of rods are quite distinct; the one, turbid; the other, clear as crystal; yet they press each against the other, now a little of the Rhone's clear current forces its way into the Arve, soon to be carried off, absorbed and discolored by the mass of muddy water around it.
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