The 3\(aturatt and Moral! 



they trouble and darken the airc , and cover all the fea 

 flioare : and in other places it raines frogges. Thefe di- 

 verfitics and others which are fufficiently knowne , are 

 commonly attributed to the place by the which thefe 

 windes pafTe. For they (ay, that from thefe places they 

 take their qualities to becolde^hote.drie or moyft 3 fick~ 

 ly or found, and fo of the reft, the which is partly true, 

 and cannot be denied for that in afmall diftanceyou 

 fhall fee in one winde many diverfities . For example, 

 the Solantts or Eafterne winde is commonly hote and 

 troublefbme in Spaine^ and in Mttrria it is the cooled 

 and heal thfulleft that is , for that it paffeth by the Or 

 chards , and that large champainc which wee fee very 

 frefli. In Carthagene which is not ferre" from thence,thc 

 fame winde is troubleibme and vnholefome . The me- 

 ridionall ( which they of the Ocean call South , and 

 thofe of the Mediterranean fea, Mezo giorno) common, 

 ly israynie and boifterous,and in thefame Citie wher- 

 of I fpeake,it is vvholcibme and pleafant. Plinie reports 

 that in Affricke it raines with a Northcrne winde , and 

 riiat the Southerne winde is clecre . Hce then that fliall 

 well confidcr what I have fpoken of thefe windes, hee 

 may conceive, that in a fmal diftanceof land or fta,one 

 winde hath many and diverfe qualities, yea fometimes 

 quite contrary- whereby we may inferrc, that he draw- 

 eth his property from the place where it pafleth , the 

 which is in fuch fort true '( although we may not fiy in 

 fallibly) asitistheonely : arid principal! cauftof the.di* 

 vcrfiticof the windes . It is a thing we eafely finde,that 

 in a river containing fiftie leagues in circuite (I putte it 

 thus for an example ) that the winde which blowes of 

 the one parte, is hote and moift; and that which blowes 

 on the otherj is colde and drie : Notwithftanding this 



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