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clouds. Hitherto of the height ; now we must consider of 

 the latitude. 



4. It is certain that those spaces which winds take up 

 are very various, sometimes they are very large, sometimes 

 little and narrow : winds have been known to have taken 

 up a hundred miles space with a few hours difference. 



5. Spacious winds (if they be of the free kind) are for 

 the most part vehement and not soft, and more lasting ; for 

 they will last almost four and twenty hours. They are 

 likewise not so much inclined to rain. Straight or narrow 

 winds, contrariwise, are either soft or stormy, and always 

 short, 



6. Fixed and stayed winds are itinerary or travelling, 

 and take up very large spaces. 



7. Stormy winds do not extend themselves into any large 

 spaces, though they always go beyond the bounds of the 

 storm itself. 



8. Sea winds always blow within narrower spaces than 

 earth winds, as may sometimes be seen at sea, namely, a 

 pretty fresh gale in some part of the water (which may be 

 easily perceived by the crisping of it) when there is a calm, 

 as smooth as glass every where else. 



9. Small whirlwinds (as we said before) will sometimes 

 play before men as they are riding, almost like wind out of a 

 pair of bellows. So much of the latitude ; now we must see 

 concerning the lastingness. 



10. The vehement winds will last longer at sea, by reason 

 of the sufficient quantity of vapours ; at land they will 

 hardly last above a day and a half. 



11. Very soft winds will not blow constantly, neither at 

 sea, nor upon the land above three days. 



12. The south wind is not only more lasting than the 

 west (which we set down in another place), but likewise 

 what wind soever it be that begins to blow in the morning, 

 useth to be more durable and lasting than that which 

 begins to blow at night. 



13. It is certain that winds do rise, and increase by de 

 grees (unless they be mere storms), but they allay sooner, 

 sometimes as it were in an instant. 



Successions of Winds. 



To the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first articles. 



1. If the wind doth change according to the motion of 

 the sun, that is, from east to south, from south to west, 

 from west to north, from the north to the east, it doth not 

 return often, or if it doth, it doth it but for a short time. 



