MifceUanea Curioja. 6 1 



An Hiftorical Account of the Trade 

 Winds and Monfoons, obferva- 

 ble in the Seas between and near 

 the Tropicks, with an attempt 

 to affign the Fhyfical Caufe of the 

 [aid Winds ^ by Mr. Ed.Halley. 



AN exact Relation of the conftant and pe- 

 riodical Winds, obfervable in feveral 

 Tracts of the Ocean, is a part of Natural Hi- 

 ftory not lefs defireable and ufefulj than it is 

 difficult to obtain, and its Phenomena hard 5 to 

 explicate : I am not ignorant that feveral Wri- 

 ters have undertaken this Subject, and although 

 Varenius (Lib. I. Chap. 2X. Geo. Gen.) feems to 

 have endeavour'd after the belt information 

 from Voyagers, yet cannot his Accounts be ad- 

 mitted for accurate, by thofe that fliall atten- 

 tively conlider and compare them together, and 

 Ibme of them are moft evident Miftakes ; which, 

 as near as I can, I (hall attempt to rectify, 

 having had the opportunity of converfing with 

 Navigators, acquainted with all parts of I«- 

 </;«, and having liv'd a considerable time be- 

 tween the Tropicus, and there made my own Re- 

 marks. 



The Subftance of what I have collected is 

 briefly as follows. 



The Univerfal Ocean may moft properly be 

 divided into three Parts, vi%. i. The Atlan* 

 tick and /EthiepicliSea. 2. The Indian Ocean, 



r The 



