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as are brought upon it from other Places ; and, it may be 

 added, in all Directions, N.ow thefe Clouds and J^apours are 

 fiippofed, by this Author, (p. 199.) to he hr ought only hy the 

 N. Winds from the Mediterranean ; which Wind is likeipije the 

 Occafion of the O'uerfloii/ in another Refped, as it drives in the 

 Water from the Sea, and keeps hack the Waters of the River 

 in jiich a ma?iner as to raife the Waters above. But the latter 

 Part of this Account, as neither agreeable to Fatl, we may 

 prefume, or Reafon, was long ago exploded by Herodotus \ 



Neither can the former be admitted as the fole, nay per- The Etefan 

 haps it may not be fo much as the partial Caufe of the Inunda-the Caufe of 

 tion. For thefe Northern or Etefian Winds, (as they are other- 

 wife called,) are not found, by Experience, to blow conftantly 

 from the Beginning to the End of the Inundation, as Hero- 

 dotus^ has likewife obferved ; but are frequently interrupted, 

 with Winds from other Qiiarters. And moreover, if thefe 

 Winds do not blow direftly from the North, but incline, as 

 they generally do, more or lefs to the Eaft or Weft, they will 

 diverge from the Mountains oiEthiopia^ where their Influence 

 is required, and dire6l their Courfes, together with the Clouds 

 and Vapours that accompany them, towards the Regions of 

 Libya or Arabia. 



Neither do thefe Etefian Winds always bring along with The£?f. 

 them fuch SuccelTions of Clouds and Vapours, as have been re-aiwayJ 

 lated by fome modern Travellers. For, in the Year mdccxxi. ckuds.' 

 during the whole Courfe of the Inundation, ( which was as 

 high and copious as ufual,) 1 obferved very little or nothing 

 at all of this Kind ; the Air being, for the moft Part, as clear 

 and ferene as at other Times. And befides, if thefe Etefian 

 Winds were the Caufe of the Overflow ; then, as often as they 

 continued to blow, for any conliderable Time, they would be 

 fucceeded by Inundations. Great Floods muft confequently 

 happen, both in the Spring, and in the Winter Seafons, when 

 the Winds, fometimes blow, for a Month together, in various 

 Direi^tions, from the N. E. to the N. W. But, as thefe Winds 

 are not attended with any extraordinary Swellings of the River, 



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