ATreAtife ef BODIES. Chap, 20. 



that \vhich cometh from towards the North, as the more wee 

 to the more dry. Yec of how different complexions (bcver they 

 be, you lee they are the emanations of one and the fame body. 

 Noc unlike unto what nature hath inftituted in the rank of ani- 

 m.ilsramong whom, the male & the female are fo diftinguifhed 

 by fieac and cold,moifhire and drought ; that nevertheleflc all 

 belongeth but to one nature ; and that, in degrees though ma- 

 nifertly different , yet fo near together that the body of one is in 

 a manner the fame tiling, as the body of the other. Even fo,thc 

 complexions of the two hemifphercs are in fucli fort different in 

 the fame qualities, that neverthelefle they are of the fame na- 

 ture, and are unequal! parts of the fame body which we call the 

 earth. Now Alchimifts afliire us, that if two extractions of one 

 body do meet together they will incorporate one with the 

 other ; efpecially, if there be forne little difference in the com- 

 plexion of the extractions. 



Whence it followeth that the/e two ftreams of aire, makin^ 



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BV the'mcctin up one continuate floud of various currcntSjfrom one end of the 

 an Ter R o"" world to the other; eaeh fiream that Cometh to the equator 

 thefe ftreams at from its own Pole, by the extraction of the funne, and that is 

 crJrivoiecs ftillfupplycd with new matter flowing from its own pole to 

 romes of tne equator, before 'the funne can fufificicntly rarifie and lift up 

 cd lC the atomes that came firft perpendicularly under its beams (as 

 from one Pole j t u f cc |, to happen in the effects of Phyficall caufei, which can- 

 not be rigouroufly ajuftcd, but muft have fome latitude in 

 which, nature inclineth ever rather to abundance then to de- 

 fecl: ) )will pafle.evcn to the other pole,by the conduct of his fel- 

 low, in cale he be by fomeoccafion driven back homewards. 



For as we fee in a boule or pail full of water, or rather in a 

 pipe, through which the water runneth along ; if there be a lit- 

 tle hole at the bottotne or fide of it, the water will wriggle and 

 change its courfc to creep out at that pipe ; efpecially if there be 

 a little fpiggot, or quill at the outfide of the hole, that by the 

 narrow length of it helpeth in fome fort (as it were ) to fuck it. 

 So if any of the files of the army or floud ofatomcs lucked from 

 one of the Poles to the equator, do there find any gappes, or 

 chinks, or lanes of retiring files in the front of the other poles 

 battalia of atomes, they will preflc in there : in fuch manner aj 

 we have above declared that water doth by the help of a labell 



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