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Winds, as if their Boughs and Leaves had been 

 pared or fhaven off on that Side. 



It is alio obferv'd, that the Weftern Wind, 

 which is the moft violent and boifterous of all 

 with us in Englafid, v^hich comes from off the 

 great Atlantick Ocean, is of longeft Continuance. 

 Julius Cajar^ in his 5th Book oi Commentaries de 

 Bello Galileo^ faith of it, Magnam partejiz omnis 

 temporis fn bis locis JJuere cofifuevit -, it is wont to 

 blow in thefe Quarters a great Part of the whole 

 Year : Which Obfervation holds true at this Day, 

 the Wind lying in that Corner at leafl three Quar- 

 ters of the Year. 



Since this Motion of the Winds is conflant, 

 there is doubtlefs a conftant and fettled Caufe 

 of it, which defer ves to be enquired into, and 

 fearch'd out, by the Study and Endeavours of the 

 moft fagaclous Naturalifts. But however the 

 Wind be raised, it may more eafily blow from 

 Sea to Land, than from Land to Sea, becaufe the 

 Superficies of the Sea being even, or level, there 

 is nothing to flop its Courfe 5 but on the Land 

 there are not only Woods, but Mountains to hin- 

 der and divert it, 



Having my felf ittn fo much of the Bottom 

 of the Sea round about the Coafts o'i England^ 

 and a great Part of the Low Countries^ of Italy 

 and Sicihs I mull: needs adhere to what I de- 

 liver'd, That where the Bottom of the Sea is not 

 Rocky, hut Earth, Owze, or Sand, and that is 

 incomparably the greateft Part of it, it is by the 

 Motion of the Waters, fo far as the Recipro- 

 cation of the Sea extends to the Bottom, brought 



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