Head-sea.
When it hath been a great storme, the wind (it may be) will suddainely alter 6. points and more, but the sea will goe the lame way it did, for some howres, then if our course lie to goe right against this sea (as we may, the wind being altred) we shall meet this sea right a-head, and so we call it a head-sea: Sometimes also when it hath but a little wind, there will be a sea, which will come contrary to the wind, but then, not long after, the wind will come that way, and doth shew, that on that point of the Compasse, when as that sea comes, there hath been much wind. Note, that generally, before any great storme, the sea will come that way before any wind; which shewes that the sea out-runnes the wind; the reason I take to be, for that the sea be∣ing a continuate-body, one part being moved, the wind doth quickly infuse motion to the rest, as we see by the circles which a stone doth make, when it is throwne into the water. Note in head-seas, all short Ships are bad sailers, for they beate much against the sea, but long Ships doe goe more easily, for they will ride upon two waves at once, and fall more geraly into the sea.