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of cotton; and as is exemplyfied in all the attractions of vcHimc 

 by venimous bodies whereof we have given many examples 

 above : and they will go along with them the courfe they go. 

 For as when a thick fhort guilded ingot of filver is drawn out 

 into a long fubtile wyrc ; the wyre continuing ftill perfectly 

 guilded all over, doth manifcftly fliew that the outfidc and the 

 infide ofthe ingot, do (trangely meet together, and intermix in 

 the drawing out : fo this little ftream which ( like an eddy cur- 

 rcnt)runneth back from the equator towards its own Pole.will 

 continue to the end ftill tin&ed with the mixture of the other 

 Poles atomes, it was incorporated with at his coming to the 

 equator. 



Now that fome little ri volets of aire and atomes fhould rtinnc 

 back to their own Pole, contrary to the courfe of their main 

 ftream will be eafily enough to conceive ; if we but confider 

 that at certain times ofthe year winds do blow more violently 

 and ftrongly from fome determinate part or Rombe of the 

 world, then they do at other times and from other parts. As 

 for examplejour Eaft India Mariners tell us ofthe famous Moii- 

 foncs they find in thofe parts; which arc ftrong winds that reign 

 conftantly fix moneths ofthe year from one polewards, and the 

 other fix moneths, from the other pole, & begin precifely about 

 the funs entering into fuch a figne or degree ofthe zodiack,and 

 continue till about its entrance into the oppofite degree. And in 

 our parts ofthe world certain fmart Eafterly or Northeaftcrly 

 winds do rcigne about the end of March & beginning of April; 

 wheri it feemeth that fome fnows are melted by the fpring heats 

 ofthe fun. And other winds have their courfcs 'mother ieafons, 

 upon other caufes. All which do evidently convince, that the 

 courfe ofthe aire, and of vapours from the poles to the equator, 

 cannot be fo regular & uniform, but that many impediments & 

 crofTes do light in the way,to make breaches in it;& thereby to 

 force in it fome places to an oppo/ite courfe. In fuch fort as we fee 

 happcneth in eddy waters,& in thecourleofa tide,wherein the 

 ftream run ing fwiftly in the middle, beatcth the edges of the wa- 

 trr to the fliore 3 & thereby makech it run back at the fhore.And 

 hence we may conclude,that although the main courfe ofaire &: 

 atomes(for example from north to fouth,in our hemifphcrc)can 

 never fail of going on towards the equator, cbnflantly at the 



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