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flear the Land ; fo that when this Hurricane, or rather 
Whirl" WindjComes in Oppofition to the conftant Trade- 
Wind, then he pours down with that Force and Vio- 
lence, that it exceeds all Siorms of Wind in the Worlds 
and, as I have faid before, nothing can wit hftand him ; 
for he takes Trees away by the Roots, and thofe that are 
extraordinarily ftrong rooted, he twifts oft in the Mid- 
dle : That in the Hurricane in 1667. n Nevis ^ I faw 
the high Mountain that was all green with Trees, left 
in moft places bare, and the Wood lying in fuch a Con- 
dition, with half Trees, or Stumps, or quarters, that 
one would think it alaioft incredible. Many other Sto- 
ries of Truth I could relate, as to this ruinous Storm ; 
but it will be too tedious : So I lhall leave it toothers Re- 
lation, and go on with the matter in hand, to ihew 
the Caufe of thefe violent Storms, according to my beft 
Judgment and Experience, 
F/rB, It is remarkable by all Men that have been in 
thofe Parts, where the Sun comes to a Zenith, that at 
his approach towards the Xenith^ there is always fair 
Weather ; But at his return to the Southwards, it occa- 
fions off the North Parts of the E^uim^lial^ generally 
much Rains and Storms, as Tornadoes, and the like | 
which makes the Wind in the Tornadoes to come on fe- 
veral Points. But before it comes it calms the conftant 
Eafterly Winds ; and when they are paft, the Eafterly 
Wind gathers Force again, and then the Weather clears 
up fair : and this I mention to come the more clearly to 
my Difcourfe of the Caufe of Hurricanes. 
Secondly^ The Wind being generally betwixt the Tro- 
fkh and the Equator Eafterly, unlcfs at fuch times as 
before declared ; meeting with the Oppofition of thefe 
' Hurricanes, which comes in a contrary Courfe to that 
Trade-Wind, as is generally called by Navigators doth 
caufe this violent Whirl- Wind, on the Sun^s leaving the 
Zenith 
