Htfiorie of the Indies lib, 5. 



it growes that the windes doe turne and feparate them 

 {elves from one part to another. Thefe wefterly winds 

 do commonly raine in a meane altitude, which is from 

 twenty and feeven to thirty and feven degrees, though 

 they be not fo certaine nor fo regularas the Brifes that 

 are in a lefTe altitude . The reafon is, for that the fbuth- 

 \veft windes are no caufes of this proper and equal mo 

 tion of the heaven, as the Brifes are , being neere to the 

 Line. But (as I have faid) they are more ordinarie,and 

 often more furious and tempeftuous . But palling into 

 'a greater altitude, as of fortie degrees , thereisaslmall 

 affurance ofwindesatfeaasatland * fbrfometimes the 

 eaft or north winde blowes, and fometimes the fouth, 

 orweaft : whereby it happeneth their navigations are 

 more vncertaine, and more dangerous. 



M rions to the fore fad Rules, and of the Windes 

 andCalmes both at Landandai Sea. CHAP. 8. 



T Hat which we have fpoken of winds, which blow 

 ordinarilie within and without the Zone, -muft 

 be vnderftood of the maine Sea, and in the great 

 gulphes; foratlanditisotherwife, where we findeall 

 forts of windes , by reafon of the inequalitie which is 

 betwixt the mountaines and the vallies- the great num 

 ber of Rivers and Lakes, and the divers fcituations of 

 Countries , whence the grofle and thicke vapors arife, 

 which are moved from the one part or the other, ac 

 cording to the diverfitie of their beginnings, which 

 cauiethefe divers windes the motion of the aire, cau- 

 fed by the heaven having not power enough , to draw 

 and move them with it. And this varietie of windes is 



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