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when the sky is cloudy and the weather rainy. That it 

 may justly be thought that there is a certain eruption made; 

 the blasts driven out and the waters shaken. 



2. Storms which come with a mist and a fog, and are 

 called Belluse, and bear up themselves like a column, are 

 very vehement and dreadful to those who are at sea. 



3. The greater typhones, who will take up at some large 

 distance and sup them, as it were, upward, do happen but 

 seldom, but small whirlwinds come often. 



4. All storms and typhones, and great whirlwinds, have 

 a manifest precipitous motion or darting downwards, more 

 than other winds, so as they seem to fall like torrents, and 

 run, as it were, in channels, and be afterwards reverberated 

 by the earth. 



5. In meadows haycocks are sometimes carried on high 

 and spread abroad there like canopies; likewise in fields 

 ocks of pease, reaped wheat, and clothes laid out to dry 

 ing, are carried up by whirlwinds as high as tops of trees 

 and houses, and these things are clone without any extraor 

 dinary force or great vehemency of wind. 



6. Also sometimes there are very small whirlwinds, and 

 within a narrow compass, which happen also in fair clear 

 weather ; so that one that rides may see the dust or straws 

 taken up and turned close by him, yet he himself not feel 

 the wind much, which things are done questionless near 

 unto us, by contrary blasts driving one another back, and 

 causing a circulation of the air by concussion. 



7. It is certain, that some winds do leave manifest signs 

 of burning and scorching in plants ; but presterem, which 

 is a kind of dark lightning, and hot air without any flame, 

 we will put off to the inquisition of lightning. 



Helps to Winds ; namely, to Original Winds ; for of acci 

 dental ones we have inquired before. 



To the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth articles. 

 Connexion. 



Those things which have been spoken by the ancients, 

 concerning winds and their causes, are merely confused and 

 uncertain, and for the most part untrue ; and it is no marvel, 

 if they see not clear that look not near. They speak as if 

 wind were somewhat else, or a thing several from moved 

 air; and as if exhalations did generate and make up the whole 

 body of the winds; and as if the matter of winds were 

 only a dry and hot exhalation ; and as if the beginning of 

 the motipn of winds were but only a casting down and per- 



