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borne down, and yet not altogether so broad, as the above- 

 named Storm Procella doth, nor without a Crack, they call 

 this boisterous Wind Turbo, which overthroweth all that is near 

 it. The same, if it be more hot and catching Fire as it rageth, 

 is named Prester; burning and laying along whatsoever it 

 encountereth. 



CHAPTER XLIX. 



Other prodigious Kinds of Tempests. 



No Typhon cometh from the North, nor any Ecnephias 

 with Snow, or while Snow lieth on the Ground. If this tem- 

 pestuous Wind when it broke the Cloud, burned fiercely, 

 having Fire of its own before, and catched it not afterward, 

 it is true Lightning; and diifereth from Prester only as Flame 

 from a Coal of Fire. Again, Prester spreadeth widely with a 

 Flash ; the other gathereth into a Globe with Violence. Vor- 

 tex differeth from Turben in flying back : and as much as a 

 Crash from a Crack. The Storm Procella differs from them 

 both in Breadth, and rather scattereth than breaketh the 

 Cloud. There riseth also a dark Mist, resembling a mon- 

 strous Beast ; and this is ever a terrible Cloud to Sailors. 

 Another, likewise, is called a Pillar 1 , when the Humour is so 

 thick and congealed that it standeth compact of itself. Of 

 the same Sort also is that Cloud which draweth Water to it, 

 as it were, into a long Pipe. 



CHAPTER L. 

 In what Lands Lightnings fall not. 



IK Winter and Summer seldom are there any Lightnings, 

 because of contrary Causes : for in Winter the Air is con- 

 densed, and thickened with a deeper Course of Clouds : and all 

 the Exhalations from the Earth being chilled and frozen hard, 

 extinguish what fiery Vapour soever otherwise they receive : 

 which is the Reason that Scythia, and other frozen Countries 



1 The Author clearly means what, in modern times, is denominated a 

 Water-spout : a phenomenon not uncommon in the Mediterranean Sea, 

 and in other warm climates ; but exceedingly rare, if at all occurring, in 

 northern regions. Wern. Club. 



