THE HISTORY. 



The Names of Winds. 



To the first article. 



WE give names to winds rather as they are numbered in 

 their order and degrees than by their own antiquity ; this 

 we do for memory s and perspicuity s sake. But we add 

 the old words also, because of the assenting voices or opi 

 nions of old authors ; of which having taken (though with 

 somewhat a doubtful judgment) many things, they will 

 hardly be known, but under such names as themselves have 

 used. Let the general division be this : let cardinal winds 

 be those which blow from corners or angles of the world; 

 semicardinal, those which blow in the half-wards of those; 

 and median winds, those which blow between these half- 

 wards : likewise of those which blow betwixt these half- 

 wards; let those be called major medians which blow in a 

 quadrant or fourth part of these divisions: the lesser me~ 

 dians are all the rest. Now the particular division is that 

 which follows : 



Cardinal. South. 



South and by west. 

 Med. Maj. South-south-west, or libo- 



notus. 



South-west and by south. 

 Semicard. South-west, or libs. 



South-west and by west. 

 Med. Maj. West-south-west, or afri- 



cus. 



West and by south. 

 Cardinal. West, or favonius. 



West and by north. 

 Med. Maj, West-north-west, or co- 



rus. 



North-west and by west. 

 Semicard. North-west. 



North-west and by north, 



or thrascias. 

 Med. Maj. North-north-west, or cir- 



cius. 

 North and by west. 



There are also other names of winds. Apeliotes, the east 

 wind, argestes, the south-west, olympias, the north-west, 

 scyron, the south-east, hellespontius, the east-north-east, 

 for these we care not. Let it suffice that we have given 



Cardinal. North. 



North and by east. 



Med. Maj. North-north-east, or aqui- 

 lo. 



North-east, and by north, 

 or meses. 



North-east. 



North-east and by east. 



East-north-east, or caecias. 



East and by north. 



East, or subsolanus. 



East by south. 

 Med. Maj. East-south-east, or vultur- 

 nus. 



South-east and by east. 



South-east. 



South-east and by south. 

 Med. Maj. South-south-east, or phaer 

 nicias. 



South and by east, 



Semicard. 

 Med. Maj. 

 Cardinal. 



Semicard. 



