gain, there is not aa equal ballance, but the preffurc of 
the Southern He m-ifp here of the^^V muft needs^be great- 
eft, and confequently the Brrfe muft blow all that feafon 
from the South Eaft, and when the ^^^fw returns again to 
the South- ward of the Line as far as Capricorn and back 
again, the preflure of the Northern Hemifphere muft 
needs preponderate and make the wind blow all that 
half y^ar from the North-Eaft. i^nd this feems to ac- 
cord very well with experience, for their Northern Mon- 
fons are in our Winter fealon when the Sun is in the 
Southern 6'igns, and their Southern ones in our Summer 
when he is in the Northern Signs. 
The fourth thing I have mentioned is the ftated Win- 
ters and Summers, which are to be found in dfftant pla- 
ces of the fame Countrie at one and the fame time. For 
example the Rivers of Indus and G^?2^^J",where they enter 
the do contain between them a large Cherfonejus 
which is divided in the middle by a ridge of high hills 
which they call the Gate , which run along from Eaft to 
Weft and quite thorow to the Cape Comori. On the one 
iide'is Malabar^ and on the other CoromandeL On the 
Malabar fide between that ridge of Mountains and the 
Sea, it is after their appellation Summer from September 
t\l\ JpriL In which time it is always a clear skie, with- 
out once or very little raining. On the other fide the 
hills on theCoaftof Coromandelit is at the fame time 
their Winter, everieday and nightyeelding abundance 
of rains i and from :/^r^/ to September it is on the Ma- 
labar fide their Winter, and on the other fide their 
Summer, fo that in little more than 20 Leagues jour- 
niein lome places, as where they croffe the hills to S'. 
Thomas, on the one fide of the hill you afcend with a 
fair Summer, on the other you defcend with a ftormy 
Winter. The like is faid to be at Cape Ra'^al^ate in 
Arabia. And Dr. 'Traph am relates the iame o\ Jamaica, 
intimating that there is a ridge of hills which runs 
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