in Syria, Phcenice S'V. ^5i 



the A^eiTcl, which, at this Junclure, muft have been to the 

 Leeward of Thxnice, the Port they were endeavouring to make 

 up to, could not have paifed under the liland Clauda, which 

 was iituatcd,at fe veral Miles Diftance^almoft direolly to theWeft- 

 ward of it. Upon this Suppofition likcwife, the Danger they 

 apprehended οϊ falling into the (Syrtis) §liuckfands, (v. 17.) 

 would have been inevitable, which, by the Event, appeared 

 to be altogether groundlefs, occafioned no doubt, from their 

 not having been able to ohfer've the Sun or the Stars for many 

 Days, (v. lo.) and continuing thereby ignorant of the Courfe^ 

 wherein they were driven. 



But to purfue the Natural Hiftory: I never obferved any r/;^ Cicdas 

 Thanomena, that were more peculiar to the Qedas, (the N. E. 'ii^nijZuh 

 ^E. Wind, as we will fuppofe it) than to any o\h^x Le^Oanter.f^L•^^' 

 Ariflotle indeed, ( who is partly followed herein by Tliny ' ) 

 defcribeth it ' to have a Property, contrary to all other Winds, 

 ίι&τ[3ί-μ'^^^ w οαΐπ/, of drawing, as ^. Gellim 3 interprets it, the 

 Clouds to itfelf: an Expreffion as well as Quality which it will 

 be difficult to comprehend, unlefs we may prefume to explain 

 it, by (what indeed it hath only in common with other Le- 

 vanters,) either the Hazinefs that accompanies it, or elfe by the 

 great Accumulation of Clouds, which, to ufe theMarinersPhrafe 

 frequently hang, without diffipating, for feveral Days toge- 

 ther, in the Winds Eye. For at other Times, thefe, no lefs 

 than the oppofite Winds, are, even by y^r^otle^?, Confeffion^, 

 attended with long Succeflions of Clouds, driving each other 

 forward with great Force and Velocity. 



We are to obferve further with Regard to UiQ^t Levanters se-vcraiRoch 

 that when they are of along Continuance, the Water is blown '^^ '^«^^αιί'' 

 away, to fuch a Degree, from theCoaft οι Syria and Thoenicey 

 that feveral Ranges of Rocks, which, in Wefterly Winds, lye 

 concealed, do now become dry, and leave expofed, to the Water 

 Fowl, the Urchins, Limpets, and fuch like Shell Fiih, as ilick 



I Narrant & in Ponto C^c'ian in fe trahere nubes. Pl'm. Nat. Hift. ]. 2. cap. 48. 

 2 Ο Λ Kcuxidi «κ al^tiQr, 077 ΛνΛ)&.μτί\Η Hf ajjiiy οθί» rst tiyvrau μ τταζ^ιμία^ 'ίλκων Ij' twn» Sam^ Kauxiac 

 ήφ@: Αϊ'φ. Mctcorol. J. 2. cap. 6. 3 Vi^. 1. 2. cap. 22. ^iftoteUs iti flare dicic Cacian, 

 ut nubes non procuJ propelJat, fed ut ad fefevocet, ex quo verium iltum proverbialem fadtutn 

 ait : ΚακΛ 



ters. 



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