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but a bow, showeth itself in the shadow of the sail. We see 

 this pleasant reflexion in the small drops of the salt water, 

 in several colours, like the rain-bows in the skies, that are 

 seen over against the dark clouds. 



This brings to my mind another phenomenon, viz., that in 

 the clouds near the sun a very bright light is seen, like a 

 parelion or mock-sun. These lights are called Weathergalls 

 by the sea-men. 



This bright light we find in the lowermost air, in the dark 

 shady clouds, that are not unlike to a cloud of rain, because 

 it is full of drops, wherein the sun is represented, as things 

 are in a looking-glass. 



This clearness of the sun causeth a heat, which drives from 

 it a rainbow, figured by the sun, which bow are the drops 

 that by the heat of the sun are changed into a vapour or fog ; 

 and this vapour shews like snioak in the air, when the cold 

 remits, wherein these colours are no more seen. 



But in these raised drops, as aforesaid, the sun represents 

 itself, and causeth these colours, which are truly distinct, and 

 represent blew, yellow, and red, which are the three primary 

 colours of the bow. 



Concerning the bigness thereof, I did consider and minded 

 the bow that I saw in Sjntzhergeyi, and found that it moved 

 about with the sun by day and by night, and that it appeared 

 much bigger in the morning, evening, and at night, than in 

 the day-time. 



I will not mention the whirlwinds, which are unknown in 

 these cold countries, that used to take up the water into the 

 air ; but yet I will not omit the small whirlwinds that proceed 

 from the high mountains, from whence the wind recoils, and 

 so turueth round about. 



We see, farther in Spitzhergen, that the sea, as well as other 

 waters, sends forth a vapour when the cold encreases, which 

 vapour is turned into rain in the air, or into snow, and it 

 suicUeth like a fo"- or stcamin"; water. 



