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!2:enith of Barladoes, and thofe adjacent Iflands ; by which 
the EafterJy Wind doth much decay of his Strength : 
and then the Weft Wind,* which is kept back by the 
Power of the Sun, doth with the greater Violence and 
Force pour down on thole parts where he encroaches. 
And itis ufual in our faiUng from Barbadees^ or thofe 
Iflands to the North, for a Wefterly Wind, when we 
begin to lofe our Eafterly Wind, to have it calm, as it is 
before Hurricanes : And then the Wind fpringing up, 
caufeth it, till it comes well fetled, to be various, but 
after the fetled Wefterly Wind comes frefli, we have 
been conftantly without thofe Shufflings from Point to 
Point. Here is to be obferved, that all Hurricanes begin 
from the North to the Weftward, and on thofe Points 
that the Eafterly Wind doth moft violently blow, doth 
the Hurricane blow moft fiercely againft it ; for from 
the NNE. to the ESE, the Eafterly Wind biowerh frefii- 
eft ; fo doth the W.NW. to the SS W. in the Hurricane 
blow moft violent ; and when he comes back to the SE. 
which is the common Courfe of the Trade Wind, then he 
ceafeth of his Violence, and fo breaks up. 
So, with Submifr;on to better Judgments, I take the 
Caufe of Hurricanes to be the Sun's leaving th^ Zemth 
oi thofe Parts towards the South. And Secondly^ the 
Reverfp or Rebounding back of the Wind, which is oc- 
cafioned by the calming of the Trade- Wind. 
But it will be objeded, Why fliould not this Storm be 
all over thofe Parts of the Wefl-Indies^ as well as Bar^ 
hadoes and the Leeward- Iflands ? 
To which I anfwer, That it hath in about Twenty- 
five Years of my Experience, taken its Courfe from Bet' 
ntudoes, or Summer Iflands ^ to the Carilee Iflands ; but 
feldom or never doth he carry fuch a Breadth as from the 
Latitude of Sixteen to Thirty-two Degrees, which is the ' 
Latitudes of the one and other Places ; but it hath 
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