Of CkpU HowEL DAriS. aoi 



Entrance ot the Governor's Villa they thrive ex- 

 treemly well, and the Bark not inferior to our Cin- 

 namon from India ; why they and other Spice, in a 

 Soil fo proper, receive no farther Cultivation, is, 

 probably, their Sufpicion, that fb rich a Produce, 

 might make lome potent Neighbour take a Fancy to 

 thelfland. 



They have two Winters, or rather Springs, and 

 two Summers : Their Winters, which are the rainy 

 Seafons, come in September and February y or March, 

 and hold two Months, returning that Fatnefs and 

 generative Power to the Earth, as makes it yield 

 a double Crop every Year, with little Sweat or 

 Labour, 



Hie Fer Affiduum atque Allenis Menjtbus <tAEflas 

 ■ ^ Bis gravidas, TecudeSy bis Pomis utilis arbos. 



Their firft coming is with Travado^Sy i. e. fiidden 

 and hard Gufts of Wind, vtrith Thunder, Light- 

 ning and heavy Showers, but Ihort and the next 

 new or full Moon at thofe Times of the Year, infal- 

 libly introduces the Rains, which once begun, fall 

 with little Intermiffion, and are obferved coldeft in 

 February. Similar to thefe are rainy Seafons alfb 

 over all the Coafl: Africa: If there may be al- 

 lowed any general Way of calculating their Time, 

 thev happen from the Courfe of the Sun^ as it re- 

 fpefts the (^quinooiial only for if thefe Equinoxes 

 prove rainy Seafons all over the World (as I am apt 

 to think they are) whatever fecret Caufe operates 

 with that Station of the Sun to produce them, will 

 more effeftually do it in thofe vicine Latitudes ; 

 and therefore, as the Sun advances, the Rains are 

 brought on the Whydah and Gold Coaft, by April, 

 and on the Windwardniofl: Part of Guiney by May : 

 The other Sealbn of the Sun's returning to the 

 Southward, make them more uncertain and irres^u- 

 l^r in Northern Africa \ but then to the Southward 



again. 



