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shore ; and as the sea-breezes do blow in the day 

 and rest in the night ; so, on the contrary, these 

 do blow in the night and rest in the day, and so 

 they do alternately succeed each other. For 

 when the sea-breezes have performed their offices 

 of the day, by breathing on their respective coasts, 

 they, in the evening, do either withdraw from 

 the coast, or lye down to rest. Then the land- 

 winds, whose office it is to breathe in the night, 

 moved by the same order of Divine impulse, do 

 rouse out of their private recesses, and gently fan 

 the air till the next morning, and then their task 

 ends, and they leave the stage. 



There can be no proper time set when they 

 do begin in the evening, or when they retire in 

 the morning, for they do not keep to an hour, but 

 they commonly spring up between six and twelve 

 in the evening, and last till six, eight, or ten in 

 the morning. They both come and go away 

 again earlier or later, according to the weather, 

 the season of the year, or some accidental cause 

 from the land. For, on some coasts, they do rise 

 earlier, blow fresher, and remain later than on 

 other coasts, as I shall show hereafter. 



