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for the onely proportion entcitaincs and makes it to 

 continue. To well difcef nea tiling, it muft not be too 

 necre theeie, nor too farre off, but in a reafbnable diC 

 tance proportionable; being too farre off from any 

 thing, we loofe the fight , and too necre likewife, we 

 cannot fee it. If the funnebeames be \veake,they draw 

 vp no fogge from the rivers, if they be violent, having 

 drawne vp the vapours, they prcfendy cBflblvc and 

 confumethem; but if the heat be moderate, it drawes 

 vp andpreferves it : for this reafon the vapours rife not 

 commonly in the night, nor at noone, butin morning, 

 whetias the funne begins to enter into his force.Thcre 

 are a thoufand examples of naturail caufcs vpon this 

 iiibioft, which we fee do often grow from contrarie 

 things: whereby we muft not \vonder,if die funne be 

 ing neere^cngendcrsraine, and being farre off, works 

 the like effbfi : but being of a moderate and proporti 

 onable diftance,caufeth none at all. Yet there remaincs 

 one doubt, why theneerenes of the funne caufeth 

 the raine vnder the burning Zone, and without, when 

 itisfartheftoff. In my opinion the reafon is, that in 

 | Winter without the'Tropicks , the funne hath not 

 force fufficient to conftirae the vapours which rife 

 from the land and fea$ for thefe vapours grotir in great 

 aboundance in the cold region of the aire, where they 

 are congealed and thickened by theextremitieofthe 

 cold- and after bring prefTed they diflblvc and turne 

 into water. Therefore in Winter when the funne is 

 fartheftoff, the daiesfliort, and the nights long, his 

 heat hath fmall force: but when the funne approa- 

 cheth , which is in thefiimmer time, his force is fuch, 

 as it drawes vp the vapors, and fudd-ply consumes 

 anddifpeifeth them ^for the heat and the Lngth ofthe 



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