7S A VOYAGE TO Book VIÍ. 



ters, never known to do any damas^e by their vio- 

 lence; so that if this country was free from other 

 inconveniences and evils, its inhabitants could have 

 nothing: to desire, in order to render their lives trviij 

 agreeable. But with these signal advantages, nature 

 has blended inconveniences, which greatly diminish 

 their value; and reduce this country even below 

 those, on which nature has not bestowed such great 

 riches and fertility. 



It has been observed, that the winds generally pre- 

 vailing in Valles, throughout the whole year, comes 

 from the south ; but this admits of some exceptions, 

 which, without any essential alteration, implies that 

 sometimes the winds come from the norths but so 

 very faint, as scarcely to move the vanes of the ships, 

 and consist only of a very weak agitation of the air, 

 just sufficient to indicate that the wind is changed 

 from the south. This change is regularly in winter, 

 and with it the fog immediately begins, which in some 

 measure seems to coincide with what has been oflered 

 with regaixi to the reason why showers are unknown 

 at Lima. This breath of wind is so particular, that 

 from the very instant it begins, and before the wind 

 is condensed, the inhabitants are unhappily sensible 

 of it by violent head-aches, so as easily to know what 

 sort of weather is coming on before they stir out 

 of their chambers. 



CHAR 



