CSiap. 45.] WIITDS. 71 
(44.) The windings and tlie numerous peats of mountains, 
their ridges, bent into angles or broken into defiles, with the 
hollow valleys, by their irregular forms, cleaving the air which 
rebounds from them (which is also the cause why voices are, 
in many cases, repeated several times in succession), give rise 
to winds. 
(45.) There are certain caves, such as that on the coast of 
Dalmatia, with a vast perpendicular chasm, into which, if a 
light weight only be let down, and although the day be calm, 
a squall issues from it like a vjfhirlwind. The name of the 
place is Senta. And also, in the province of Cyrenaica, there 
is a certain rock, said to be sacred to the south wind, which 
it is profane for a human hand to touch, as the south wind 
immediately rolls forwards clouds of sand^ There are also, 
in many houses, artificial cavities, formed in the walls ^, which 
produce currents of air; none of these are without their 
appropriate cause. 
CHAP. 45. — YAEIOTJS OBSEEYATIOITa EESPECTING- 
WINDS. 
But there is a great difference between a gale and a wind^. 
The former are uniform and appear to rush forth^ ; they are 
felt, not in certain spots only, but over whole countries, not 
forming breezes or squalls, but violent storms^. "Whether 
they be produced by the constant revolution of the world 
and the opposite motion of the stars, or whether they both 
of them depend on the generative spirit of the nature of 
ceed from a marshy and moist soil ; De Mundo, cap. 4. p. 605. For the 
origin and meaning of the terms here appHed to the winds, see the re- 
marks of Hardouin and Alexandre, in Lemaire, i. 323. 
^ This is mentioned by Pomp. Mela. 
2 "In domibus etiam multis manu facta inclusa opacitate concepta- 
CTila " Some of the MSS. have madefacta for manu facta, and 
this reading has been adopted by Lemaire ; but nearly aU the editors, as 
Dalechamps, Laet, Grrovonius, Poincinet and Ajasson, retain the former 
word. 
^ The terms in the original are " flatus " and " ventus." , . 
" illos (flatus) statos atque perspirantes." 
. ^ " qui non aura, non procella, sed mares appeUatione quoque ipsa venti 
'sunt." This passage cannot be translated into Enghsh, from our Ian* 
guage not possessing the technical distinction of genders, as depending 
on the termination of the iDubstantives. 
