3o8 M E M O 1 Ti S of the 
much rain and ftorms, as tornado's and the like, which makes 
the wind in the tornado's come on ieveral points j but before it 
comes, it cahns the conftant eafterly winds, and when they are 
part, the eaiterly wind gathers force again, and then the weather 
clears up fair. 5. The wind being generally betwixt the tropics 
eaflerlv, unlels at luch times as before declared, meeting with 
the oppolition of thefe hurricanes, which come in a contrary 
courfe to that trade-wind, caules this violent whirlwind, upon 
the fun's leaving the Ze):itb of 'Barbadoes and the adjacent 
iflands; by which the eafterly wind doth lofe m.uch of itsftrength, 
and then the weft wind, which is kept back by the power of the 
ibn, pours down with the greater violence and force upon thole 
parts where it gets vent 3 and it is ufual in failing from Sarba- 
doeSi or the iflands thereabouts, to the north for a wefterly wind, 
when they begin to loie the eafterly wind, to have it calm, as 
is ufual before hurricanes; and then the wind fpringing up, 
till it comes to be well fettled, caules the weather to be various 5 
but after the fettled wefterly wind comes frefh, they have been 
conftantly without thole fhuftlings from point to point. 
Here it is to be oblerved, that all hurricanes begiiT from the 
north to the weftward, and on thofe points that the eafterly wind 
blows moft violently, the hurricane blows moft fiercely againft it, 
for from the N. N. £. to the E. S. E. the eafterly wind blows 
frelheft j fo doth the \Y. N. W . to the S. S. W. in the hurricane 
blow moft violent^ and when it comes back to the S. E. which 
is the common courle of the trade-wind, then its violence ceales, 
and ib breaks up. And thus the Captain took the caule of 
hurricanes to be the fun's leaving the Zenith of thofe parts 
towards the ibuth, and lecondly, the reverie or rebounding back 
of the wind, which is occafioned by the calming of the trade- 
wind, to proceed from the fame caufe. But it will be objedted, 
why fliould not this ftorm be all over thole parts of the Weft- 
Indies, as well as Udrbadccs and the Zecjcard iflands? To 
which the Captain anlwers, that it had in about 2 5 years of 
his experience, taken its courfe from Bermudas, or the Summer 
iflands to the Caribbee iflands, but leldom or never doth it 
reach lb far, as from the latitude of 16 to 32 degrees, which 
arc the latitudes of the one and the other place 5 but it has been 
obferved, that when hurricanes have been in Martinlco, which 
,is within two degrees of latitude and two degrees of longitude, 
according to the miles of that circle, yet no hurricane hath 
been m Barbadoes. Again, it has been obferved, that hurri- 
e:anps have done the like to the northwards 3 for when the 
hurri- 
