PARTICULAR TOPICS; 



OR, 

 ARTICLES OF INQUISITION CONCERNING THE WINDS. 



The names of winds. 



DESCRIBE or set down the winds according to the seaman s 

 industry ; and give them names either new or old, so that 

 you keep yourself constant to them. 



Winds are either general or precise, either peculiar or 

 free. I call them general which always blow; precise, 

 those which blow at certain times ; attendants or peculiar, 

 those which blow most commonly ; free winds, those which 

 blow indifferently or at any time. 



General winds. 



2. Whether there be any general winds, which are the 

 very self motion of the air; and if there be any such, in 

 order to what motion, and in what places they blow ? 



Precise or fixed winds. 



3. What winds are anniversary or yearly winds, return 

 ing by turns ; and in what countries ? Whether there be 

 any wind so precisely fixed, that it returns regularly at cer 

 tain days and hours, like unto the flowing of the sea ? 



Attending or peculiar winds. 



4. What winds are peculiar and ordinary in countries, 

 which observe a certain time in the same countries ; which 

 are spring winds, and which are summer winds ; which 

 autumnal, which brumal, which equinoctial, which solsti 

 tial ; which are belonging to the morning, which to noon, 

 which to the evening, and which to the night. 



6. What winds are sea winds, and what winds blow from 

 the continent? and mark and set down the differences of 

 the sea and land winds carefully, as well of those which 

 blow at land and sea, as of those which blow from land and 

 sea. 



Free winds. 



6. Whether winds do not blow from all parts of heaven ? 



Winds do not vary much more in the parts of heaven 



from which they blow, than in their own qualities. Some 





