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directly from the rising Equinoctial!, and Southeast that LlB - 

 which comes from the winter rising. To the Mid-day or 

 Pole Antartike they give the name of Southwest, and to 

 that of the winters setting the name of Southwest ; to the 

 right setting Equinoctiall the name of West,, and to the 

 summers setting Northwest. They divide amongst them 

 the rest of the winds, and give them their names as they 

 participate and approach to others, as North-northwest, 

 North-northeast, East-northeast, East-southeast, South- 

 southwest, West-southwest, W^est-norwest, so as by their 

 names we know whence they proceed. In the Mediter 

 ranean sea, although they follow the same division and maner 

 of reckoning, yet doe they give them other different names. 

 They call the North Tramontana, and his contrary, the 

 South, Mezogiorno or Mediodia. The East they call Levante, 

 and the West Poniente, and those which crosse these foure 

 they call thus : Southeast is by them named Xirocque, or 

 Xaloque, and his opposite, which is Norwest, they call Mes- 

 tral. The northeast they call Gregal, and the Southwest 

 his contrary, Levesche, Lybico, or Affricaine. In Latine 

 the foure knowne winds be Septentrio, Auster, Subsolanus, 

 Favonius, and those which be interlaced are Aquilo, Vul- 

 turnus, Affricus, and Corus. According vnto Plinie, Vul- 

 turnus, which Eurus is the same winde as Southeast or 

 Xaloque. Favonius is the West or Ponent, Aquilo and 

 Boreas is Nortest or Gregal, or Tramontana, Affricus, and 

 Libique is the Southwest or Levesche, Auster and Notus 

 is the South or Midday, Corus and Zephirus the Northwest 

 or Mestral, and to the Northeast or Gregal they give no 

 other name then Phenicias. Some divide them after an 

 other maner, but for that it is not now our purpose to repeate 

 the Latine and Greeke names of all the windes; lette vs onely 

 shew which be those amongst these windes that the Mariners 

 of the Indian Ocean call Brisas and which Vendavales. 

 I was long in some difficulty about these names, seeing them 



