PJinies Natural! Hiftonc. 



A cr<eririfjinthemiddefl:bctwcenerhe Northeaft and thacoftheSunnerifing inthecqiu- 



nodkll Suh-foknu^^. Alfb^after the Sunnc rifing in SunMnti^Phcenicedsm the middeft^between 

 theSoiuheall and the South, Laft of all^betweenerhe Southand the SouthweftjZ-j^tf/ycr^^Juft 

 ia the niiddeftjcompounded of them bothpamely^betwecne theNooneftecdjand the Sunfet- 

 ting in Winter.But here they could not lay a ftrawjandiee to make an end. For others have fee 

 oncmore yetjcalled Mefcy betweene the Northeaft wind Boreas^'3ind Cacius : alfo turo?iotm^z^ 

 tweene the South and the Southweft winds.Befides all thefe^there be fomc Winds appropriate 

 and peculiar to every nation, which palTe not beyond one certaine tra6l and region : as namely 

 Sqros among the Athenians5declining a litdefroni Argeflti\ a Wind unknowne to other parts 

 of Greece. In fome other placeit is more aloft, and thelamethen is called oljmpUs^'s.s com- 



B ming from the high hill Olimpus.But the ufuall and cuftomable manner of fpeecHjUnderftan- 

 deth byallthefe names Argejies only. Some call C4jr/4jjby i;he name of fJelkjpom/as : and give 

 the fame Winds in ftmdrie places divers names. In the province likewife of Narbone, the moft 

 notorious Wind is Circms, and for violence inferiour to none, driving diretlly before it very 

 ofccn5the current at Oftia into the LigiJrianfea.The fame wind is notonely unknown in alothec 

 climates of the heaven, butreachethnotfbmuchasto Vienna,acitiein the fame province . As 

 great & boifterous a wind as he is otherwifejyet^a reftraint he hath before he come thithefjand 

 is kept within few bounds by the oppofition of a meane and fmall hill. Fabianm alfo avoUcheth^ 

 iha^ the South winds enter not fo farre as into ^gypt. Whereby, the law of Nature fhewcth ic 

 fclfe plainclyjthat even Winds have their times and limits appointed. 



C To proceed theujthe Spring opencth the Sea for failers: in the beginning whercof,thc Weft 

 Winds mitigate the winter v^sather,at what timeas the Sun is in the 25 degree of Aquarius jand 

 that is the lixt day before the Ides of Februarie. And this order holdeth in manner with all other 

 winds^that I willfetdown one after another:fo that in every leap yeer ye anticipated reckon one 

 day (boner,and then againe keepe the fame rule throughout all the foure years following. Some 

 call F4'y^f?r^(which beginneih to blow about . the fevenih day before the Calends of March)by 

 the name of Ck/idomu^^n^on the fight of the tiilftfwallowes: but many name it Orwibfas^com- 

 ming the 71 day after the Ihorteft d;iy in W-inter^by dccafion of thecomming of birds;which 

 wind bloweth for nine daies.Oppofite unto Fiivomm is the Wind which we called Sub-foUnm^ 

 Vnto this Wind is attributed the rifing of the VtrgiU or feven ftars, in as many degrees of Fau- 



D ruSjfixedaies before the Ides of May whichti'meisafoutherlyconftitution: andtothis Wind 

 the North is cpntcarie.Moreoverjin the hoteft feafon of the Summerjthe Dog-ftarre arifeth,ac 

 what time as the Sun entreth into the firft degree of Leo, which commonly is the fifteenth day 

 before the Calends of Auguft. Before thciifingof this Starre for eight daiesfpace ortherea- 

 bout,the Northeaft winds are aloft, which the Greekes call Pr^?^;r^w//.forerunners. And two 

 dales after it is rifen,the fame winds hold ftill more ftiffely,and blow for the fpace of fortie daics, 

 which they ^^xmz^ufuXxiz Sunnes heat,tedoubled by the hotnefle of that fi:arre,is thought to 

 be affuaged by theinrand no winds are more conftant,nor keepe their fet times better than they. 

 Next after them come the Southerne winds againe,which are ufually upjUntill the Starre Ar^u- 

 vHs rifeth,and that is nine dales before the ^quinodiall in Autumne. With it entereth Corti^s 



E and thus Ci?//^beginneth the Autumne. And to this is contrarie. After that equino- 



(^iall,about foure and fortie daies,the Vcrgilm goe down, and begin Winter,which feafon ufii- 

 allyfalleth upon the third day before the Ides of November.This is the Winter Northeaft wind, 

 which is farre unlike to that in Summer, oppofite and contrarie to Africm. Now, a feven-nighc 

 before the Mid-vwnter day,and as much afterjthe fea is allaicd and calme for the fitting and hat- 

 ching of the birds Halciones^whereupon thefe dales tooke the name Alcimts : the time behind^ 

 plaieth the part of Winter . And yet thefe boifterous feafons full of tempefts, ("hut not up the 

 lea ; for pyrates and rovers at the firft forced men with prefent perillof death, to run headlong 

 upon their death, and to hazard themfelves in Winter feas , but now a daies covetoufiieffe cau- 



P fcth men to doe the like. 



The coldeft winds of all other, be thofe which we faid to blow from the North pole, and to- 

 gether with them their neighbour,Ci?r^.Thefe winds doe both allay and ftill all others,and alfo 

 Icatter and drive away clouds. Moift winds are Africus, and efpecially the South wind of Italic^ 

 called Attjlen Men report alfo,that C^cias in Pontus gathereth and draweth to it felfe clouds.Ctf- 

 m and yulturfim^ are drie, but onely in the end when they give over. The Northeaft and the 



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