ANESSAYONINDIA, 



dry fpots are obfervcd, covered with briars and thickets. The 

 parts negleded by human culture are full of woods, which abound 

 with the moft beautiful and fingular birds, efpecially parrots, 

 peacocks, pigeons, and others infinitely diverfified with the gayefl 

 and moft varied plumage; together with herds of antelopes, 

 tribes of monkeys, and numbers of lions and tygers. The ele- 

 phant, and rhinoceros, alfo inhabit thefe forefts, which fcarcely 

 ever lofe their leaves, but are always verdant, and perpetually 

 loaded with fruits of one kind or another. 

 Islands. Nature wears a different form in the iflands of the Indian fea. 



But, that we may the better underftand the nature of the climate, 

 and the temperature of the atmolphere, it will be of particular 

 ufe to confider the courfe of the winds which prevail in thefe feas. 

 Wjnds. Between both tropics the wind almoft conftantly blows from the 



eaft ; and at the equinoxes, about the line, the courfe of the wind 

 is direftly from eaft to weft. For the fun in the day-time heats 

 the air; and about noon, when it is vertical, die atmofphere 

 glows with heat, and therefore is rarefied ; at the fame time, the 

 fun, feeming rapidly to move from eaft to weft, on account of 

 the diurnal revolution of the earth, caufes noon fuccefiively ia 

 different regions. Towards evening, when the fun is in the weft, 

 the air from both fides of the globe, as likewife from the eaft,, 

 rufties towards the weft, and follows the fun, in order to balance 

 the rarefa(5tion of the heated atmofphere: this current of air is 

 the eaft wind. The greater the diftance from the equinodlial 

 line in each hemifphere, the more the wind inclines to the north 

 or fouth. Now, when the fun arrives at the tropic of Cancer, the 

 eaft wind follows itj but the eaft-north-eaft and north-eaft ex:- 

 tcnd beyond the tropic of Cancer into the northern hemifphere,. 

 X whilft. 



