[Sidenote: Conterenus.] The like course of the water in some respect
happeneth in the Mediterrane sea, (as affirmeth Conterenus) whereas the
current which cometh from Tanais, and Pontus Euxinus, running along all the
coasts of Greece, Italy, France, and Spaine, and not finding sufficient way
out through Gibraltar, by meanes of the straitnesse of the fret it runneth
backe againe along the coastes of Barbary, by Alexandria, Natolia, &c.

[Sidenote: An objection answered.] It may (peraduenture) bee thought that
this course of the sea doth sometime surcease, and thereby impugne this
principle, because it is not discerned all along the coast of America, in
such sort as Iaques Cartier found it: Wherevnto I answere this: that
albeit, in euery part of the Coast of America, or elswhere this current is
not sensibly perceuied, yet it hath euermore such like motion, either in
the vppermost or nethermost part of the sea; as it may be proued true, if
ye sinke a sayle by a couple of ropes, neere the ground, fastening to the
nethermost corners two gunne chambers or other weights: by the driuing
whereof you shall plainely perceiue, the course of the water, and current
running with such course in the bottome. [Marginal note: The sea doth
euermore performe this circular motion, either in Suprema, or concaua
superficie aquæ.]

By the like experiment, you may finde the ordinary motion of the sea, in
the Ocean: howe farre soeuer you be off the land.

9 Also there commeth another current from out the Northeast from the
Scythian Sea (as M. Ienkinson a man of rare vertue, great trauail and
experience, told me) which runneth Westward towardes Labrador, [Marginal
note: The yce set westward euery yeere from Island. Auth. Iona Arngriimo.]
as the other did, which commeth from the South: so that both these
currents, must haue way thorow this our fret, or else encounter together