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endeavors to explain, how it comes to pafs^that one Wiad 
blows on the Top of a Mountaioj and a quite contrary in 
the Vally below 5 and why in the main Sea^ Winds ke^p 
the fame Quarter a long time ^ but near mountainous 
Iflands or Shears they whiftleup and down, and (hifcfrom 
one point of the Compafs to another 5 Obferving alfo^thac 
fometimes Contrary winds do rencounter together^ and 
that by their ballancing one another a Calme eolueth» 
6, He treats of the Matter of Winds, their Limits and 
Extent, and the mojt Windy Seafons 5 giving an account^ 
why they blow more in Spring and Aucumn^ than at other 
times* 
7« He proceeds to the Hiftory of the General or Tradf.- 
wind, alledging the Caufes why ic blows conftantly 
from the £^?//^r/}' points, and imitates the Courle of the 
Sun : Inftrufting us witfaall^ where it is to be expelled on 
this fide of the Tropiguc 5 as alfo of the Variation thereof 
ia fey QrA Longitudes J and the Caufeof the blowing of the 
fVeJierly winds without the Tropiques* 
8. He treats of Provincial winds, fuch as wander not far 
from thdr native fountains,and terminat in chofe Regions 
that gave them birth. 
9. He gives the Hiftory of the Land and Sea^Brifes | 
when they come in, or ceafcjin the Straigbts^on the Coafts 
otGuiny, and the Eajl and Weji» Indies^ and what Acci- 
dents haften or retard their approach* 
10. He difcourfes of the -^^wwi'i'^r/^^rj^ ff^W/ ; their feve* 
ral fpecies, and particularly thofe in the way to the Eaftf 
Indies^calied the Monfoons : How many months they con- 
tinue the fame Courfe on the Goaft of J frique and India ^ 
together with the^haoging and Breaking up of the Mm^^ 
foons, and the danger there is then at Sea when they do 
fo* 
11. He examins the §^alitie/o£ Winds, derived froBSi 
their Conjiituent PartSy or the Medium they pafs through. 
Where he defcends to the Gonfideratien of the Properties 
olEafierly^Soutkfrly^mJierlyznd NQrth-mnd$i infercing 
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