* 86 Of the Winds and Seafons at Bahk, 
An. 1699. vvhicli, as they furmiz’d, would hinder 
any farther Attempts of going on to 
the Southward, fo long as they fhould 
laft. 
The Winds begin to fhift here in 
April and Sepsember, and the Seafons of 
the Year (the Dry and the W t) alter 
with them. In April the Southerly 
Winds make their entrance on this 
Coaft, bringing in the Wet Seafon, with 
violent Tornaclo’s, Thunder and Light- 
ning, and mucli Rain. In September the 
other Coafting Trade, at Eaft North 
Eaft comes in, and clears the Sky, bring- 
ing fair Weather. This, as tothechange 
of Wind, is what I have obfervM Vol. 
iJ. Part 3. p. 19. but as to the change 
of Weather accompanying it fo exaftly 
here at BAhia, this is a particular Excep- 
tion to what I have Experienc’d in all 
other Places of South Latitudes that I 
have been in between the Tropicks , or 
thofe I have heard of ; for there the Dry 
Seafons fets in, in Aprils and the Wet 
about Oblober or Nervember , fooner or 
later (as I have faid that they are, in South 
Latitudes, the Reverfe of the Seafons, or 
Weather, in the fame Months in N. La- 
titudes Vol. II. Part ^.p. 77.) whereas on 
this Coaft of Brazil , the Wet Seafon 
eomes 
