We first calculate the actual weight of meteoric Indraught to the sun which would be adequate to sustain the fires of the sun at their present vigour.
"The Story of the Heavens"
Robert Stawell Ball
Papa remarked that the strong current produced by the Indraught of the Irish Channel drifted these ships out of their course, and was the cause of the catastrophe.
"A Yacht Voyage Round England"
W.H.G. Kingston
My master is of opinion that the age of the moon may have peculiar influence over the currents, causing them to be strong till three or four days after the full: but I rather think that the deep bay between Cape Corientes and Mozambique causes an Indraught or eddy of some stream or current, coming either from the N.E. or more easterly, and entering the channel of Mozambique at the N.W. of Madagascar, and so along the land to Cape Corientes; or else the stream from the N.W. of Madagascar, meeting with the land of Mozambique, may be drawn that way by the falling in of the land.
"A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. VIII."
Robert Kerr