tlons. But (to return to Jamaica) that this night-wind depends 
much upon the Mountain, appears by this, that its force ex* 
tends to an equal diftance from the Mountain, fo that at VorU 
morant) which is the Eafter-moft part of the Ifland, there is lit- 
tle of Land-brife,becaufe theMountain is remote from thence, 
and fpends its force along the Land thither. I (hall further il- 
luftrate this kind of Attraction. In the harbour of Jamaica 
there grow many Rocks, fhap’d like Bucks- and Staggs-horns: 
there grow alfo feveral Sea-plants, whole roots are ftony. Of 
thefe Itone- trees ( if I may term them fo) fome are infipid,but 
others perfectly Nitrous. Upon thofe other Plants with petri- 
fied roots there gathers a Lime-ftone, which fixes not upon 
other Sea-fans, growing by them* It is obfervable alfo, that a 
MonchinePapple, wliftg into the Sea, and lying in the water, will 
contract a Lanugo of Salt-peter: which is confirmed by the 
. Author of theHiftory of the Antiles, To conclude this par- 
ticular, the Captain of our Ship ventured to give me a reafon 
for thefe winds, which I will not conceal from you, finCe it 
may put you upon an Experiment, whichhe faid he had often 
made : Vi^ That the Sun did heat the Air, and exhale the Va- 
pours, which after did fettle on thofe hills, and as they grew 
cold, took up more room than before, and fo made a wind by 
their preffure j as water, put hot. into a Cask and clofed, would, 
ftejaid 0 as it cooled, break the Cask. 
It is commonly affirmed. That the jSeafons of the Year be- 
twixt the Tropic ks are divided by the Rains and Fair weather, 
andfix Months are attrrbuted to each Seafon. But this obfer- 
vation holds not ! generally- true : For at the Point in Jamaica 
fcarce fall (as was, on another occafion, hinted above) forty 
fliowers in a year, beginning in Augufi to OUober inclufively®' 
From the Point you may look towards Tort-morant , and fo 
along to Liganee, §% miles from th q Point, and y0u4 fcarce fee, 
for eight or nine months r beginning from April, an after- 
noon, in which it rains not. At the Sprnifh Town it rains but 
three Months in the Year, and then not much. And at the 
fame time, it rains at Mevis , it rains not at the Barhadoes. And 
at Cignateo ( other wife called E(euth.eria) in the Gulph of Baha- 
ma it rains not fometimes in two or three years, fo that that 
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