80 Mifcettanea Curio/a. 



Sun being retirM, and all things growing cooler ; 

 Northward, and the Heat increafingto the South, j 

 the North-Eaft Winds enter and blow all the 

 Winter till April again. And it is undoubtedly 

 from the fame Principle that to the Southwards of 

 the Equator, in part of the Indian Ocean, the 

 North- Weft Winds fucceed to the South-Eaft, 

 when the Sun . draws near the Tropic!^ of Capri* 

 corn j but I rauft confefs, that in this latter oc- 

 curs a difficulty, not well to be accounted for, 

 which is, why this Change of the Monfoons mould 

 be any more in this Ocean, than in the fame La- 

 titudes in the JEthopkk^ where there is ' nothing 

 more certain than a S. E. Wind all the Year. 



'Tis likewife very hard to conceive why the 

 limits of the Trade-wind mould be fixt, about 

 the thirtieth Degree of Latitude all round the 

 Globe ; and that they mould fb feldom tranfgrefs 

 or fall fliortof thofe bounds \ as alfo that in the 

 Indian Sea, only the Northern Pare mould .be 

 (ubjeel: to the changeable Monfoons^ and in the 

 Southern there be a conftant S. E. 



Thefe are Particulars that merit to be confi- 

 der'd more at large, and furnifh a fiifficient Sub- 

 ject for a juft Volume, which will be a very com- 

 mendable Task for -fitch, who being us'd to Phi- 

 lofbphick Contemplation, mail have leifure to ap- 

 ply their ferious Thoughts about it, 



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