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In the North-fide of this land Rai : 
| ains in that Month 
m itd frequent and violent, coming along with great Winds oie 
neverthelefs feldom pals the Hills, or ridge of Mountains running 
through the middle of the Ifland, fo that very often the Seafons of the: 
ine are st ips from thofe of the other. 
or all the Summer-months, or when the Sun ig ; ) 
| : 1€ Sun is near | 
Sas Heads, or indeed almoftthe whole year round, Ue Na 
af a on fome part of the Ridge of Mountains running through 
the Iland, wich Thunder and Lightning. Thefe Rains feldom 
reach two or three Miles into the Plains ; wherefore on the account 
of thefe Rains, the Valleys lying very near, or amongft the Moun- 
tains, have more Seafons, and are more fertile than the Plains farther 
off, which, if they have any Rain, it is but the Outskirts of that 
inthe Mountains, and therefore inconfiderable. | 
Atother times of the year, fometimes for three or four days toge- 
ther there may be a Shower about Twelve, or four a-Clock in the 
Afternoon, which only ferves to moiften the furface of the Ground 
without any profic, 
It will be neceffary for the better underftanding of thefe 
Things, to give a Fournal of the Weather, obferved by 
me at St. Jago de la Vega m Jamaica. 
from thence to night a dead 
May 1688. Calm ; in the evening a very 
ye great Dew. 
2. Great Sea-Breeze all] 5. No Breeze in the morning, 
day, begins in the] which begins at one or two 
morning early; no Land-Breeze by the Clock after noon. 
the night before. 6. The Breeze is great, and lafts 
3. A great Sea-Breeze all day,| till lace in che night. 
begins abouit nine or ten in the} 7. The Breeze is moderate. 
morning; in the firft part of| 8. The Breeze is pretty ftrong. 
the night a great EHalo about} 9. No Breeze till two or three 
the Moon. in the afternoon. 
4. In the morning early a Sea-}10. A great Sea-Breeze, but at 
_ Breeze pretty great, about Ele-| Twelve, Rain with Thunder 
ven in the morning Thunder) came with the Land-Wind, 
in the Mountains wich Rain;| and no Breeze after. 
a litle of both came to us,{11- A Sea-Breeze , and about 
with the Land-Winds, and| Twelve, Rain from the Moun- 
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