properly be divided into three Parts, viz. 1. The Atlantick and Æthiopick-Sea . 2. The Indian Ocean . 3. The Great South Sea , or the Pacifick Ocean ; and though these Seas do all communicate by the South, yet as to our present purpose of the Trade Winds , they are sufficiently separated by the interposition of great Tracts of Land ; the first lying between Africa and America , the second between Africa and the Indian Islands , and Hollandia Nova ; and the last between the Phillipine Isles , China , Japan and Hollandia Nova on the West , and the Coast of America on the East . Now following this natural division of the Seas, so will we divide our History into three parts in the same order.
I. In the Atlantick and Æthiopick Seas between the Tropicks, there is a general Easterly Wind all the Year long, without any considerable Variation, excepting that it is subject to be deflected therefrom, some few Points of the Compass towards the