The jyjtturall andMoratt 



,~Qffewc merveffow ejfefls of the windes, which are in 

 pmtfartesofthc Indies. CHAP. 9. 



IT were a very difficult matter , to report particular 

 ly the admirable effe&es which fome windescaufe 

 in divers regions of the world, and to give a reafon 

 thereoflThere are windes,which naturally trouble the 

 water or the Tea, and makes itgreeneand black e, others 

 cleere as Criftall , fomecomfortand make glad, others 

 trouble and breede hcavines. Such as nourifli filke 

 wormesjliave great care to (hut their windowes,when- 

 as the South- weft windes do blow, and to open them 

 to the contrarie: having found by certaine experience, 

 that their worrnes diminifh and die with the one, and 

 fatten and become better with the other ; and who fo 

 will neerely obferve it , (hall finde in himfelfe 5 that the 

 diversities of windes, caufc notable impreflions and 

 changes in the bodie , principally in ficke partes and ill 

 difpofed , when they are moft tender and weake./The 

 . ^ty foipture calleth one a burning winde, another, 



loa*.*. a winde full of dew and fweetncs. And it is no wonder 

 0^.13. if wee fee fuch notable effefts of the windes, inplants> 

 beafts , and men , feeing that we fee it vifibly in yron, 

 which is the hardeft of all mettalls ( I have feene grates 

 of yron in fome partes of the Indies, fo rufted and con- 

 fumed,that prelfing itbetwixt your fingers,it diffolved 

 into powder /as if it hadbeen hay or parched ftraw, 

 the which proceedes only from the winde which doth 

 corrupt it, having no meanes to withftand it .] But lea 

 ving apart many other great and notable effc<5ts,I will 

 onely make mention of two. The one, although it can- 

 feth pangs grater then death it fclfc, yet doth itnoit 



breede 



