8 Mifcellanea Curiofa. 



is it to be believed that in fuch Cafe there would 

 be any diverfity of Weather, other than periodi- 

 cally, every Year alike; the mixture of all ter- 

 reftrious, (aline, heterogenious Vapours being 

 taken away, which as they are varioufly com- 

 pounded and brought by the Winds, feem to be 

 the Caufes of thofe various Seafons which we now 

 find. In this cafe the Aiery Regions every where, 

 at the fame height, would be equally replenifh- 

 ed with the Proportion of Water it could contain, 

 regard being only to. be had to the different de- 

 gree of warmth, from the nearnefs or diftance of 

 the Sun ; and an eternal Eaft-wind would blow 

 all round the Globe, inclining only to the fame fide 

 of the Eaft, as the Latitude doth from the Equator; 

 as is obferved in the Ocean between the Tropicks. 



Next let us fuppofe this Ocean interfperfed 

 with wide and fpacious Tracts of Land, with 

 high Ridges of Mountains, fuch as the Pyrenean, 

 the Alps, the Apennine, the Carpathian in Europe, 

 Taurus, Caucafus, Imaus, and feveral others in 

 Afia ; Atlas and the Montes Luna, with other 

 unknown Ridges in Africa, whence came the 

 Nile, the Nigre, and the Tydire ; And in Ame- 

 rica, the Andes and the Apalatean Mountains ; 

 each of which far furpafs the ufual height to 

 which the Aqueous Vapours of themfelves afcend, 

 and on the tops of which the Air is fb cold and 

 rarified, as to retain but a fmall part of thofe 

 Vapours, that fhall be brought thither by Winds. 

 Thcfe Vapours therefore that are raifed copioufly 

 in the Sea, and by the Wind, are carried over 

 the low Land to thofe Ridges of Mountains, 

 are there compelled by the Stream of the Air 

 to mount up with it to the tops of the Moun- 

 tain^ where the Water prefently precipitates, 



gleeting 



