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on, different from the wkteron both fides ) the water fcaree 
feeiiis white at the ftroak of an Oar. 
I flhall not trouble you with an account, how two contrary 
Winds poife /each other, and make a Calm in the midft, jthips 
at a diftance failing with contrary gales at the fame time. 
It is'ob'ferVable, that in the Indies fuck places, as have any 
high mod rita iris, have alfo every night a Wind, that blows 
from the Land , Manure the Levantine Wind , which blows 
at Sea (but with a flacker gale all night 5 which feems to fliew s 
it depends not only on the motion of the Earth, but Sun*) 
Whence this Wind fhonld come, may be conlideredj there 
is none at Barbadoes Or Saoha, but at all the other Iflands. And 
in Jamaica every night it blows off the Ifland every way at 
once, fo that no (hip can any where come in by night, nor go 
out but early in the morning, before the Sea-brife come in. I 
have often thought on it, and could imagine no other reafon, 
but that thofe Exhalations , which the Sun hath raifed in the 
day, make hafte (after his ftrength no longer fupports them) 
to thofe Mountains by a motion of Similar Attraction ^ * and 
* - /rut u there gather in Clouds, and break 
-a 
halations, condenfed by the wei ght, and ocCafion a vynd every 
Coofofthe night, and impel- way. For, as the Sun declines, the 
led down- wards, fall by their Clouds gather, and fliape according 
weight, and then firR of all to the Mountains,fo that old Seamen 
meeting with the higher parts will tell y ou each Ifland in the after- 
K Tl tow-evening by the lhape 
fame^ in clouds, the Cloud over it. And t\\\sAt- 
traUion appears further, not only 
from the Rain that gathers on the Tree in the Ifland of Ferro , 
fpoken of by j. Have\ms in his Obfervations, and If. Vojfius 
upon Fomponius Mela, as alio Magnenus de Manna i but alfo 
from the Rains in the Indies , there being certain Trees which 
attract the Rain, though Obfervations have not been made of 
the kinds ; fo as that if you deftroy the woods, you abate or 
deftroy the Trains. So Barbadoes hath not now half the Rains, 
it had, when more wooded. In Jamaica likewife at Guanaboa 
they have diminiflit the Rains, as they extended their Planta- 
tions 
