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Umgn the Ltvmlm Wind, which blows at Sea (but with a 
flacker gale all night 5 which feems to fhew it depends not only on the 
motion of the Earth, but Sun J Whence this Wind fliouldcomejmay 
be confider^d^ there is none at Marbadoes or Saona^hm at all the other 
Iflands* And in Jamaica every night it blows off the Ifland every way 
at once, fo that no fliip can any where come in by night, nor go out 
but early in the morning, before the Sca^hife comt 'm. 1 have often 
thought on it and could imagine no other reafon, but that thofe Ex- 
halations, which the Sun hath raifed in the day 3 make hafte (after his 
ftrength no longer fupports them) to thofe Mountains by a motioa 
o{ Similar AttraSion. * and there ga- D^(r,ki« k« f 
, . , Jill. L ^Poliibiy !t may be more plain, 
ther m Clouds, and break thence by ^ That thofe Exhalation., 
their own force and weight.and occa- condenfed by the cool of the nighs 
lion a wind every way. For,as the Sun and impelled downwards, fail by 
declineSjthcClouds gather, and lhape their weight, and then fir ft of sll 
accordmg to the Mountains, fo that meeting with the higher parts of 
old'SeaoSn will tell you each Ifland 'ttt^ "^f. Tlt'^T^^'T^ 
^ \ c ^ J -n • L "Cttle about the lame> in clouds^ 
m the afternoon towards Evening by 
the (hape of the Cloud over it. And this AttraWim appears further, 
not only from the Rain that gathers on the Tree in the Ifland oiFerro^ 
fpoken of by J. Hawkins in his Obfervations, and //. F^fiu^ upon Prns'^ 
f mim Mela^ as alfo Magnenm de Manna \ but alfo from the Rains in 
the IndieSy thQtQ being certain Trees which attradl the Rain, though 
Obfervations have not been made of the kinds -^(o as that if you deflroy 
the woods, you abate or dcftroy the Ilains. So Barbadoes hath not 
now half the Rains, it had, when more wooded. In Jamaica likewife 
at Guanaboa they have diminifht the Rains as they extended their Plan- 
tations. But (to return to Jamaica) thatthis night-wind depends much 
upon the Mountain, appears by this, that its force extends to an equal 
difl:ance from the Mountain, fo that at /^r/»?^^^;?/, which is the Eaft- 
er-moftpart of the ifland, there is little of Land-brife, bccatifethe 
Mountain is remote from thence, and the hrlje fpends its force along 
the land thither. I ftiall further illuftrate this kind of Attradion.In the 
harbor of Jamaica there grow manyRocks,fliap'd like Bucks and Stags 
horns : there grow alfo feveral Sea plants, whofe roots are ftony . Of 
thefe ftonc-trecs ( if I may term them fo) fome are infipid, but others 
perfedly Nitrous. Upon thofe other Plants with petrified roots there 
gathers a Lime-ftone, which fixes not upon {)thcr Sea-fans, growing 
by them. It is obfervable alfo, that a Menchind- App/e^ falling into the 
Ddd Sea 
