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The Indians fo far as I could perceive 
hs^r^butlittk knowledge of , th^ St%|$ and 
Planets , obfeiving the San and Moon only, 
the dividers oi time into dayes and years : 
they being nearer to the Equinodial linc 
by 10 degrees, have their dayes and nighcs 
more equally divided, being in Sanrimer 
two hours (hotter, in Winter two hours 
longer than they are in EngUfid The ii 
of June the Sun tifeth at 4 and 26 minu cs, 
and fetfeth at 7 & 34 nninatcs: in December^ 
the 15 the {hortdtday, the Sun rifcth at 7 
and 3 5 nninutcs, and fetteth at 4 and 27 nii- 
nutis. ^ 
Mid-M^^rc^ theiif Springbcgins, \x\ April 
they have Riin ai d Thunder v So again at 
Michaelmas, about which feafpn t\\ts have 
either before Michaelmas or after outrageous 
fiarmsof Wind and Rain. It's obrcrvablc 
that there is no part of the World, which 
hath not forae certain times of out-rageous 
liorms. We have upon our Coz9i 'm England 
zMichadmas flaw,that fcldom fails ; in the 
Weji'Jndics in Auguji ^nd Scptewbery^Q 
forcible iV;r/^-wind, which though fome 
caU Tf^ffin^ oip liurncanes we npuft diftiii- 
guiflij tor a right: MMfricmi-XS ^ as I have 
ia'd bvfore.) a^ |mp goes 
aif >ut the CompaCs i|i ^thc^.fo^^^ 24 
hours, in tuch a ftprm the lord Wikiighhy^ 
