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greateft aboundance of raine is, when the Mooneis at 

 the full; but to (ay the trueth, I could never make fuffi- 

 cient proofe thereof, although I have obferved it. 

 Moreover, the dayes, the yeere and the moncths,fhew 

 the trueth hereof, that the violent hcate of the funne 

 caufeth the rainein the burning Zone : experience tea- 

 cheth vs die like in artificial! thinges , as in a Limbccke y 

 wherein they draw waters from hcarbs & flowers ; for 

 thevehemencieof the fire forceth anddrivethvpaft 

 aboundance of vapours, which being pref!ed,and fin 

 ding no i(Tue,are converted into liquor and water. The 

 like wee fee in gold and filver , which wee refine with 

 quicke-filvcr, the fire being fmall and flow , wee draw 

 out almoft nothing of the quicke-filver, but if it bee 

 quickeand violent,it doth greatly evaporate the quick- 

 filver, which incountring the head above, dothpre- 

 fently turne into liquor, and begins to drop downe: 

 Even fo the violent heate of the funne produceth rfiefc 

 two effeds , when it finds matter difpofed, that is y to 

 draw vp the vapours on high, and to difTolvethem pre- 

 fen dy,and turne them into rainejWhen there is any ob- 

 ftacle to confume them. And although thefetnings 

 fteme contrary, that one funne within the burning 

 Zone, being neere,fhould cauft raine, and without the 

 Zone afarre off fhould breed the like efFe<%fo it is, that 

 all well confidered 3 there is no contrarietie. A thou- 

 land effects innaturall caufes proceedeof contraric 

 things by divers meanes : we drie linnen by the fire 3 and 

 in the aire,and yet the one heats and the other cooles- 

 paftures are dried and hardened by the fiinne and with 

 thefroft;moderate exercife provokes fleepc, being too 

 violent, it hindereth : if you lay no wooa on the fire, 

 it dieth$ if you lay on too much^t likewife quencheth: 



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