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offer a reafon, oppofiteto his of Similar AttraUion : which this 
observer in his Second Letter thinks not fo fair, except theothe 
inftmcesj he mentioned, had been refuted. 
To which 'tis thought there needs no more to be faid, tofa- 
tisfie the obferver, than that the Publijher did not at all obtrude 
another reafon of theEffeft, there fpoken of, but very modeft- 
ly (as he conceives) and with an expreflion implying doubt, fug- 
gefted only his thoughts, which then occurr'd to him 5 being fo 
unconcerned herein, that, to fhew on this occafion his averfe- 
nefs from difputing , he altogether leaves it to the Reader to 
judge, whether Similar Attraction, or Pulfion and Weight be the 
more Philofophical account of the Phenomenon, there difcourfed 
of: In reference to which, this curious Traveller farther ob- 
ferves$ 
That the Sea-brife comes not into Jamaica till 8 or p of the 
clock in the morning, and ordinarily ceafeth about 4 or «5 ac 
night. Where yet he adds, that he hath known a Sea-brife 
blow in the Winter-months 14 days and nights together 5 and 
that then no Clouds gather, but Dews fall: But if a North-wind 
blow, (which fometimes in the Winter- months lafts as longj 
that then no Dew falls^nor Clouds gather.The Clouds (he faith) 
begin to gather about 2 or 3 of the clock in the afternoon at 
the Mountains, and do not embody firft in the Air, and after 
fettle there, but fettle firft, and embody there-, the reft of the 
Skie being clear till Sun-fet^ fo that they do not pafs near 
the Earth in a body , and only flop where they meet 
with parts of the Earth elevated above the reft^ but precipi- 
tate from a very great height, and in particles of an exceeding 
rarified nature, fo as not to obfeure the Air or Sky at all , that 
great variety of beautiful Colours in the Canopy of Heaven, 
being raifed to a much greater diftance than 'tis here. 
Next (to do the observer farther right) he defires that what 
is faid Numb. 27. p. 497. of having faiPd in the Latitude of 
Barbados for two days, may be read for fome days, he having kept 
no exadt journal, and believing it was mort days. And f. 498. 
fee fuggefts , that for Hawkins it fhould be read Sir Richard 
Hawkins in his obferv. Self. 12. 
Thirdly he takes notice, that he could not "learn, how the Tor- 
toifes 
