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13. The winds called ornithii, or bird winds, had that 

 name given them because they bring birds out of cold 

 regions beyond the sea, into warm climates ; and they 

 belong not to stayed winds, because they for the most part 

 keep no punctual time : and the birds they for the conve 

 nience of them, whether they come sooner or later : and 

 many times when they have begun to blow a little, and 

 turn, the birds being forsaken by it, are drowned in the 

 sea, and sometimes fall into ships. 



14. The returns of these certain or stayed winds are not 

 so precise at a day or an hour, as the flowing of the sea is. 

 Some authors do set down a day, but it is rather by con 

 jecture than any constant observation. 



Customary or Attending Winds. 



Of the fourth and fifth articles. Connexion. 



The word of attending winds is ours, and we thought good 

 to give it, that the observation concerning them be not lost, 

 nor confounded. The meaning is this, divide the year if 

 you please (in what country soever you be) into three, four, 

 or five parts, and if any one certain wind blow, then two, 

 three, or four of those parts, and a contrary wind but 

 one ; we call that- wind which blows most frequently the 

 customary, or attending wind of that country, and likewise 

 of the times. 



1. The south and north winds are attendants of the 

 world, for they with those which are within their sections 

 or divisions blow oftener over all the world, than either 

 the east or the west. 



2. All free winds (not the customary) are more attendant 

 in the winter than in the summer ; but most of all in the 

 autumn and spring. 



3. All free winds are attendants rather in the countries 

 without the tropics, and about the Polar circles, than 

 within : for in frozen and in torrid countries, for the most 

 part they blow more sparingly, in the middle regions they 

 are more frequent. 



4. Also all free winds, especially the strongest and most 

 forcible of them, do blow oftener and more strongly, morn 

 ing and evening, than at noon and night. 



5. Free winds blow frequently in hollow places, and 

 where there be caves, than in solid and firm ground. 



Injunction. Human diligence hath almost ceased and 

 stood still in the observation of attending winds in parti- 



