Sea^artd lying in the water^will cofitrada Idnugo of Salf-petcr .-which 
is confirmed by the Author of the Hiftory of the AmiUs. fo conclude 
this particular, tKe Captain of cur Ship ventured to give me a reafon || 
for thefe winds, which I will not conceal from you, fince it may put 
you upon an EKperiment^ which he faid he had often made : viz. 
That the Sun did heat the Air, and exhale the Vapours, which after 
did fettle on thofe hills^ and as they grew cold, took up more room 
than beforcj and fo made a wind by their preCfure ; as wrater, put hot 
into a Cask and clofed, would, h faid^ as it cooled, break the Cask. 
It is commonly affirmed, That the Seafonsef the Year betwixt the 
Troficks are divided by the Rains and Fair weather, and fix Months 
are attributed to each Seafon. But this obfervation holds not generally 
true : For at the Pom in Jamaica fearce fall ( as was, on another oc- 
cafion, hinted above) forty (bowers in a year, beginning in ^uguft to 
oHcber inclufivcly. From xh^Foint you may look towards P^r /-^itf- 
r/i/7r, and fo along to LigeneeSvL miles from the Poim ^stnd you'l fearce 
fee, for eight or nine monchs, beginning from j^pril^ an afternoon in 
v/hich it rains not. At the Sparjifh Town it rains but three Months in 
the Year, and then not much. And at the fame time, it rains at Mevif^ 
it rains not at the Barbadoes. And atCignateo (otherwife called Eleu- 
the^ ia) in the Gulph of Bahama it rains not fometimes in two or three 
years, fo that that Ifland hath been twice deferted for want of rain to 
plant in. 
At the Point oi^amaica^ where-ever you dig five or fix foot^water 
will ap p:ary which ebbs and flows as the Tide. It is not fait but brack- 
ifh, unwholfomeformen^ but wholfome for Hogs, htth^ Caymans 
there is no water, but wh:n is brackifh alfo s yet is that wh^lfome foe 
men, infomuch that many are recovered there^ by feeding on Tortoi- 
fes, and yet drink no other vi^ater. 
The B'oud ofTonoifes is colder than any water, I ever felt there • 
yet is the beating of their Heart as vigorous, as that of any A nimal(as 
far as I have obfcrved.) and their Arteries are as firm as any Creatures 
I know : Which fcems to fliew. It is not heat that hardens the coats 
of the Arteries, or gives motion to the Heart. Their Lungs lie in their 
bcliy be'ow the Diaphragm, extending to the end of their ShelL Their 
-SfJcen is Triangular, and of a firm fiefli/'no Parenchyma jand floridly 
red. Their Liver is of a dark grecn,inclining to black^and Parenchyma- 
tous. In the Oefofhagm are a fort of Teeth, with which they chew the 
grafs^thcy eat in the ^4eadowSpwhich there grow at the bottom of the 
Sc<i. AH 
