^^^ Phyfical Ohfervattons &c. 



Cteclas, without diftinguifhing it, as Seneca doth, by Greek 

 Charafters, or making any Apology for the Introduaion of a 

 foreign Name. Tliny ' Ukevvife, who was nearly contemporary 

 with Seneca, doth the fame \ calHng it alfo Hellejhontia^s \ 

 as blowing probably from that Quarter. The Ccecias therefore 

 muft have been known very early in the Roman Navigation ; 

 and confequently, even provided the Mariners had been Romans, 

 there could be no NecefTity, at this Time, and upon fuch an 

 Occafion, for the Introdudlion of a new Term. 

 nesh}pva. But as we learn, {^&s z'j. 6.) that the Ship was oiAlexan- 

 Grifan? dvla, failing to Italy, we may fuppofe the Mariners to have 

 been Grecians, and, as fuch, too well acquainted with the re- 

 ceived and vernacular Terms of their Occupation, to admit of 

 this Graco-Lat'tn, or barbarous Appellation, as they might think 

 Euroaquiio i|-^ p^^^ if j-,-,ay be juftlv cnoush objeded, that, provided the 



takeii Notice ■' •' ■> -.. ,, ,-y^,. 



of by no Au- Euroaquiio had prevailed lo early, it is much that Fliny, A. 

 Gell'ms, u^puleim, Iftdore, and others, who wrote particular 

 DilTertations upon the Names and Diverfities of Winds \ fhould 

 not have taken the leaft Notice of it. Whereas Euroclydon being 

 perhaps no other, than fome peculiar Word among the Mari- 

 ners, denoting one of the ftrong Levanters which I have 

 been defcribing, we are to be the lefs furprized, why St. 

 Luke, (who was adlually prefent in the Storm and may be 

 fuppofed to have heard the very Expreffion ) is the only 

 Author who records it. Befides, when we are told, that this 

 tempeftuous Wind was called Euroclydon, the Expreffion feems 

 to fuppofe it, not to have been one of the common Winds, 

 fuch as were denominated from their Site and Polition, but 

 fome extraordinary one, with Regard chiefly to the Quality 

 and Circumftances of it. 

 r-&. Euroa- j^ likcwife may be flill further infilled upon, in Vindication 

 have drove of the rcccivcd Readine, that provided the Pofition of this 



them tnto the ^ ^ n ^i 



Guifh "f Euroaquiio, even at the Beginning of the Tempeft, (how much 

 foever it might have varied afterwards to the Eaftward) had 

 been at E. N. E. or N. E. hy E. (and the Euroaquiio, as falling 

 in, by Suppofition, betwixt the Eurus and the Aqutlo, could 

 have no other Direction ) yet even, upon this Hypothe/ts, 



I Vid. P/7«. Nat. Hift. 1.2. cap. 47. 2 C<e(WJ media inter Aquilonem & Exortum ^qui- 

 no(5tialem, ab Oitu Solftidali. Fl'tn. ut fupra. 3 Cretan aliqui vocant Helieffontian. Pliti. 

 ibid. Keutuds, o> ^Ttoimnrvaf hiot lut^w. At'tft. Meteor. 1. 2. cap. 6. 4 Vid. Pitn. Nat. Hift. 

 I. 2. cap. 47. M. Gell. Nod, Attic. J. z. cap. 22. Apul. de Mtmdo. Ifid. Orig. 1. 13. 



cap. II. the 



Sidra. 



