in Syria;, Phoenice ^c. ^5i 



the Veflcl, which^ at this Jundurej muft have been to the 

 Leeward of ThEn'ice^ the Port they were endeavouring to make 

 up to, could not have pafled under the Idand Clauda, which 

 was lituated,atfeveral Miles Diftance,almoft diredly totheWeft- 

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

 apprehended oi falUng into the (Syrtis) §lutckfands, (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 

 DaySy (v. ao.) and continuing thereby ignorant of the Courfe, 

 wherein they were driven. 



But to purfue the Natural Hiftorv: I never obferved any ^'^^ c^Ecias 



■ ^^ '' ^ /^ ■ / 1 "f the j aim 



Thaenomena^ that were more peculiar to the Lcecias^ (the N. E. ^^nty-^ith 

 hji'E. Wind, as we will fuppofe it) than to any othtr: Le^uanter.vlnitxs. 

 ^riftotle indeed, (who is partly followed herein by Tliny") 

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

 Ima.-^ii'^iM M aJT^v, of drawing, as ^. Gellim 5 interprets it, the 

 Clouds to itfelf: an Expreflion 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 lels 

 than the oppofite Winds, are, even by yirifiotle\ Confeilion *, 

 attended with long Succeflions of Clouds, driving each other 

 forward with great Force and Velocity. 



We are to obferve further with Regard to \}[\e{e Levanter s ^^'y'^'''^ '^'"''' 



^ . laid bare by 



that when they are ot a long Continuance, the Water is blown '^^ ^-^van- 

 away, to fuch a Degree, from the Coaft of Syria and Thnenice, 

 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 Fifli, as ftick 



I Narrant & in Ponto Caciati in fe trahere nubes. Plin. Nat. Hift. 1. 2. cap. 48. 

 ■2. O Ji KttixJctj 81 euSreiQ;', 077 h<wj.wn\» «f cujtbV o3ti' rjk htyncu S Tta^fiixia^ 'ihyMV ip aZnv aanf Kcuxjitt 

 tii^Qf. Ar'ift. Metcorol. 1. 2. cap. 6. 3 Viz.. I. 2. cap. 22. Arlftoteles ita flare dicit Cu'iatiy 

 ut nubes non procul propellat, fed ut ad fefe vocet, ex quo verfum iltum proverbialem fadum 

 ait : Kaxa. 



E? lajj-jvv e^X6)» of Kauxjdi vip®:'. 



7^ T? TO'TH a.TTAKtaTtxif fhiu, iyjri •7to»'«i' i/'a.mI' ks" dr/Ajk IiV «e?»3«, Ar'tflot. Ut fupra. 



Yyyy upon 



ters. 



