OF WINDS. 275 



But if it go contrary to the motion of the sun, that is, from 

 the east to the north, from the north to the west, from the 

 west to the south, and from the south to the east, for the 

 most part it is restored to its first quarter, at least before 

 it hath gone round its whole compass and circuit. 



2. If rain begin first, and the wind begins to blow after 

 wards, that wind will outlast the rain ; but if the wind 

 blow first, and then is allayed by the rain, the wind for the 

 most part will not rise again ; and if it does, there ensues 

 a new rain. 



3. If winds do blow variously for a few hours, and as it 

 were to make a trial, and afterward begin to blow con 

 stantly, that wind shall continue for many days. 



4. If the south wind begin to blow two or three days, 

 sometimes the north wind will blow presently after it. 

 But if the north wind blows as many days, the south wind 

 will not blow, until the wind have blown a little from the 

 east. 



5. When the year is declining, and winter begins after 

 autumn is past, if the south wind blows in the beginning 

 of winter, and after it comes the north wind, it will be a 

 frosty winter ; but if the north wind blow in the beginning 

 of winter, and the south wind come after, it will be a mild 

 and warm winter. 



6. Pliny quotes Eudoxus, to show that the order of 

 winds returns after every four years, which seems not to be 

 true, for revolutions are not so quick. This indeed hath 

 been by some men s diligence observed, that greatest and 

 most notable seasons (for heat, snow, frost, warm winters, 

 and cold summers) for the most part return after the revo 

 lution of five and thirty years. 



The Motion of the Winds. 



To the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth, 

 and twenty-seventh articles. Connexion. 



Men talk as if the wind were some body of itself, and by 

 its own force did drive and agitate the air. Also when the 

 wind changes its place, they talk as if it did transport 

 itself into another place. This is the vulgar s opinion ; yet 

 the philosophers themselves apply no remedy thereunto, 

 but they likewise stammer at it, and do not any way con 

 tradict and oppose these errors. 



L We must therefore inquire concerning the raising of 

 the motion of the winds, and of the direction of it, having 



