118 DIEECTION OF THE TRADE WINDS. 



LIB. m. m any paries as we will imagine, yet the wisdom e of man, 

 conformable to the holy Scripture, observes foure windes, 

 the principall of all others, and as it were the foure corners 

 of the worlde, the which they ioyne in making a crosse 

 with two lines, whereof the one goes from one Pole to another, 

 and the other from one Equinoctiall to the other. Of the 

 one side the North or Aquilon, and the Southerne winde 

 or mid-day opposite, and on the other side the East, which 

 comes from the Sunne rising, and the West from his setting. 

 And although the holy Scripture in some places speakes of 

 other diversities of windes, as of Eurus and Aquilon, which 

 those in the Ocean sea call Nordest, and they of the Medi 

 terranean sea Gregal, whereof there is mention made in 

 Saint Paul s navigation, yet the same holy Scripture makes 

 mention of those foure notable windes, which all the worlde 

 knowes, which are, as is saide, North, South, East, and 

 Weast. 



But for that we finde three differences in the rising of 

 the Sunne, from whence the name of East comes, that is 

 the two greatest declinings which he doth vsually make, 

 and the meane betwixt them both, as hee dooth rise in 

 diverse places in winter, in summer, and in that which 

 holdes the middle of these two seasons. For this reason 

 they have reckoned two other windes, the East of summer 

 and the East of winter, and by consequence two Wests, 

 the one of summer and the other of winter, their contraries, 

 so as there are eight windes in eight notable poyntes of 

 heaven, which are the two Poles, the two Equinoxes, the 

 two Solstices, and their opposites in the same Circle, the 

 which are called by divers names and appellations in every 

 place of the sea and land. Those which saile the Ocean doe 

 vsually call them thus. They give the name of North to 

 those windes that blowe from our Pole, which carrieth the 

 same name, and Northeast that which is neerest, and comes 

 from the summer East. They call East that which comes 



